PubMed · 3819309
Determinism, possibility, and ethics.
Abstract
This essay reexamines the age-old "determinism-free will" problem from a psychoanalytic perspective. The first section recapitulates the author's (1985) earlier argument on the nature of causation in psychoanalysis; the second part examines the compatibility of determinism and freedom; and the final section looks at the ethical ramifications of the issues at hand. The author exposits his adherence to universal determinism and attempts to answer the question, "What sort of possibility and ethics are permitted in a deterministic universe?"
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E R Wallace. 1986. Determinism, possibility, and ethics.. https://doi.org/10.1177/000306518603400408
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