Leland Yeager on Free Will
“A person’s character at a particular time is what it is. It inclines him to the kinds of intentions and decisions and actions that it does incline him toward; so it meaningfully exposes him to admiration or reprehension, praise or blame. This is true regardless of how his character came to be what it is. A reprehensible character remains reprehensible even though it can be explained, or explained away, as the product of adverse heredity and environment. The notion of character being admirable or reprehensible only to an extent that it is internally determined, free of external influences, is a self-contradictory notion.” (Ethics as Social Science, 54) What I said exactly.