LessonsCompulsion and Choice: Voluntary Acts, Creation and AcquisitionQuiz

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A strongly deterministic Jabarī position denies genuine human action altogether.

On this account, human movement is treated as though it were the movement of an inanimate object, without a relevant difference made by intention or choice. Ordinary experience, however, plainly distinguishes deliberate conduct from involuntary movement.

If humans are not agents in any meaningful sense, assigning commands, rewards, and penalties to their conduct becomes difficult to explain. Affirming divine creation does not by itself establish the denial of all human agency.

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The claim of absolute compulsion

Compulsion and Choice: Voluntary Acts, Creation and Acquisition

كما زعمت الجبرية أنه لا فعل للعبد أصلاً
A strongly deterministic Jabarī position denies genuine human action altogether.

On this account, human movement is treated as though it were the movement of an inanimate object, without a relevant difference made by intention or choice. Ordinary experience, however, plainly distinguishes deliberate conduct from involuntary movement.

If humans are not agents in any meaningful sense, assigning commands, rewards, and penalties to their conduct becomes difficult to explain. Affirming divine creation does not by itself establish the denial of all human agency.