... or external. An action which comes from an agent who may be said to be free must then be free of constraint from an outside party, say a man with a gun to the agents head. But in defining freedom, Ayer touches upon a notion that I take to be central to the notion of free will, ... have no other choice to assume that his actions were a result of his own beliefs, thoughts, feelings, etc. and thus, regardless of how flawed the reasoning may seem to us, the man still acted rationally with respect to his own particular situation. This may not sit well with some, but perhaps that ... him as ...

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... the edge of that "pain", that no-man's-land of unimaginable, unspeakable horror and terror, that their mind to some degree have not ever touched or assimilated before. Examine the psychological stance of a raped victim and a witness of rape. Rape is a bodily violation that abuses the victim's body and mind. Because rape makes the victim invisible, it does this literally, the perpetrator ... " covers " her, and figuratively, the rape destroys her self-image, her subjectivity, which is temporarily numbing, but ... eventually changes and destroys. The symbolization of violence for victims ...

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