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Kant's Thoughts On Freedom
Kant says, "we could not prove freedom to be something actual in ourselves and in human nature. We saw merely that we must presuppose it if we want to think of a being as rational." Kant also thinks that there is "a sort of circle" in our thinking about the relationship between freedom and morality:" we assume that we are free so that we may think of ourselves as subject to moral laws," and we "think of ourselves as subject to moral laws because we have attributed to ourselves freedom of the will." He then ends with, "Freedom is, therefore, only an idea of reason whose objective reality is in itself questionable."

Sartre's Thoughts On Freedom
Sartre proposes an interesting view on free will when he says, "either man is wholly determined (which is inadmissible, especially because a determined consciousness-IE, a consciousness externally motivated-becomes pure exteriority and ceases to be consciousness) or else man is wholly free." This shows us that Sartre believes that man is free to do what he wants.

Again, after telling us that man is wholly free, he tells us that since we are free we are responsible for our actions." The essential consequence of our earlier remarks is that man being condemned to be free carries the weight of the whole world on his shoulders; he is responsible for the world and for himself as a way of being." He says that even if one does not want to be responsible, he cannot be without the responsible for his actions, "For I am responsible for my very desire of fleeing responsibilities. To make myself passive in the world, to refuse to act upon things and upon Others is still to choose myself, and suicide is one mode among others of being-in-the-world."