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Quotation from Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
“while our several actions are in no wise free, every man's individual character is to be regarded as a free act”
Essays and Aphorisms, On Human Nature, 'Free-will and Fatalism', trans. T. Bailey Saunders (1897)
Schopenhauer's compatibilism, borrowed from Kant: empirical necessity, transcendental freedom.
Citation: "while our several actions are in no wise free, every man's individual character is to be regarded as a free act" — Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms, On Human Nature, 'Free-will and Fatalism', trans. T. Bailey Saunders (1897). (id essays-and-aphorisms-q9)
Portrait: Arthur Schopenhauer by J Schäfer, 1859b, Johann Schäfer, Public domain.
