By authority of him

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Does " by authority from him" mean "(the one was authorized by the "another")"?

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An agent is one who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one entrusted with the business of another.

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

SweetFreedomDoes " by authority from him" mean "(the one was authorized by the "another")"?

Your understanding is not clear from your question. Here is a rephrasing:

An agent is one who acts for, or in the place of, another person, by authority from the other person.

SweetFreedom · Answer

The reason that I went to check out "the agent" is here:

Free will[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Dennett&action=edit§ion=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro]

While he is a confirmed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will, in "On Giving Libertarians What They Say They Want"—Chapter 15 of his 1978 book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorms,^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett#cite_note-17} Dennett articulated the case for a two-stage model of decision making in contrast to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_(metaphysics) views.

The model of decision making I am proposing has the following feature: when we are faced with an important decision, a consideration-generator whose output is to some degree undetermined produces a series of considerations, some of which may of course be immediately rejected as irrelevant by the agent (consciously or unconsciously). Those considerations that are selected by the agent as having a more than negligible bearing on the decision then figure in a reasoning process, and if the agent is in the main reasonable, those considerations ultimately serve as predictors and explicators of the agent's final decision.^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett#cite_note-18}

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In the background info above, "the agent" seems to be our brain? Who's "another person" then?

AlpheccaStars · Answer

There is only one person.
Inside the brain of the person is one agent that represents a rational, logical decision-maker. There may be a second agent that represents irrational emotional responses (knee-jerk behavior). The person can be in internal conflict if his two "agents" produce conflicting results and the agents are equal in strength.

What happens is insanity.

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Free will[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Dennett&action=edit§ion=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro]

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