Freedom is compatible with determinism when thought is part of the causal mix

Evidence

Kant’s answer provides release from one of the two oppressions which threaten modern man, nature and history. Both appear to stifle the free, self-possessed personality: the former, because its mechanicism subjects the soul to the same blind forces as the falling stone and the sprouting stalk; the latter, because it makes of the soul a mere point of intersection of social threads spinning through history and reduces its whole creativity to a matter of administering the inheritance of the race. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 163 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Questioning presupposes that humans are not fully determined by the causal order — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 223; Consciousness freely constitutes actions as performable through possibilization; Freedom and the existence of recurrent constants are not incompatible — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 128 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Liberation-from-control paradoxically requires self-control by a prior autonomous self #complicates (0.74)
• Both nature’s mechanism and history’s determinism oppress the modern self #complicates (0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 163