An idea from Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Can you prove you are free? No. But you can’t make a decision while seeing it as only a push from outside. Anyone who must act under the idea of freedom is, for practical purposes, free.

From Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

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