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17 Cards in this Set
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Free will |
To be able to make our own decisions, just our own decisions |
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Determinsim |
The idea that we are not in control of our own actions, the are determined by previous events |
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Hard determinism |
The belief that all actions are caused by previous events and therefore not making humans responsible for their actions because they have no control over them |
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Soft determinism |
The belief that actions are caused by previous events but we still have moral responsibility over what we do |
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Libertarianism |
The belief in free will |
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Predestination |
The belief that God has decided already who will go to heaven and hell |
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St. Thomas Aquinas |
Says that we have free will supporting the standard Christian understanding that we all have free will |
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Predestination is flawed because... |
According to the bible and Christians we have free will but if we are predetermined to go to heaven or hell, we might as well act badly and have fun in life because it wouldn't matter either way
Also God has omnipotence and omniscience so knows what we will do in the world and therefore cannot be giving us free will |
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Clarence Darrow |
Lawyer who defended Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb who killed a young boy and based his argument on the fact that they were raised around death so they were products of their surroundings, therefore not to blame for the murder |
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Mary Bell |
11 year old girl who committed 2 accounts of murder and again was raised in very bad conditions leading her to commit awful actions |
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Venables & Thompson |
Two young boys who kidnapped, tortured and murdered a younger boy, James Bulger, who were also raised in poor conditions |
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Physical determination |
We are made of matter and particles that follow the laws of physics |
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Biological determinism |
We are defined and are made up by our genes |
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Scientific determinism |
Science says that for every physical event there is a physical cause as well |
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Philosophical determinism |
Theory of universal causation stating that everything in the world has had a cause and will then cause something as well. The illusion of free will is a result of our ignorance of the causes to these events making us think we have free will |
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John Locke's sleeping man |
Analogy by John Locke. It says that a man wakes up and is in a room and by his own choice instead of trying to leave, he goes back to sleep. What he didn't know is that the room was locked so any attempt to leave the room was pointless anyway but since he chose to not try and leave, it shows the illusion of free will |
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Psychological determinism |
Nature-nurture theory. The surroundings and environment someone grows up in determine their upbringing and characteristics |
