| Moral obligation is not necessitation. The moral law commands but does not coerce us. |
| Hence the will directs with absolute necessity and is itself subject to no necessitation. |
| The authors attack the common view that causation involves necessity by distinguishing between causal 'production' and necessitation. |
| In virtue of their contents, psychological states stand in logical relations like incompatibility, material implication, and conceptual necessitation. |
| For this reason the determination we are concerned with is not a necessitation. |
| On the second reading, no moral necessitation is possible with regard to the choice to live, since morality first arises after the choice is made. |
