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Buddhists take almost the opposite approach, of disengagement, observation, and deconstruction of the self
as always when I talk about Buddhism, I feel like I am oversimplifying, and certainly Buddhism doesn't always imply political disengagement
. Buddhism also offers The Middle Way to break out of dead dichotomies, and the free will question is obviously one of those. Determinism is a kind of nihilism in regards to the self, whereas naive free will is an eternalism.