Review article

Marija Brida on free will

Matko Gjurašin ; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

In this article I analyze and present the work on the topic of free will by the Croatian philosopher Marija Brida (1912–1993). I focus on three of her articles: “Freedom within the complexity of praxis” (1963), “Freedom and some aspects of historical action” (1971), and “The dialectics of the actualization of freedom”. My analysis shows that Brida is an idiosyncratic libertarian of the event causal variety, her idiosyncracy being that the acts she designates as free are only those that are creative in the loose sense of the term i.e. those that, next to artistic work, produce scientific achievements and rebellions against suppresion of freedom and those that humanize interpersonal relations.

Keywords

Marija Brida; free will; incompatibilism; determinism; libertarianism; event causal libertarianism

Hrčak ID:

241047

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/241047

Publication date:

25.6.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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