markm reviewed Just Deserts by Daniel C. Dennett
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3 stars
Many thanks to the other reviewers, some of whom have summarized this complex back and forth much better than I could. Determinism certainly seems to exclude free will, yet I find Dennett's comments attractive. As Sir Thomas More says to William Roper in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons,
This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?.