Three Types Of Determinism

Not every chance in life will be an easy one, but are we really making the choices? Are these choices made before we even know about them? Determinism is the view that every event is necessary effect of prior cause. This topic has been broken down into three classifications; hard determinism, soft determinism, and indeterminism. Philosopher 's through out many decades, are still unaware on how are choices are decided. Everyone at some point has to make an important decision in there life, or so we think we deicide it. The year two thousand and sixteen was my graduation year from high school, but that all changed when I had an oportunity placed infront of me. Graduating early is normally frowned apon in my school district, they believe everyone …show more content…
Soft determinism is the view that; although determinism is true and our choices are causally determined, we can still be said to act freely when we do what we want to do. This is one of the more popular determinisms, with philosophers like; Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and David Hume, who believe is soft determinism. They came to assumptions that, you are free as long as your arnt being forced or prevented from doing it. My choice of graduating early in there eyes, would be considered soft determinism. Even though, this option was presented to me, i still wasn 't forced todo it, there for it was a determination on my own.
Lastly, after the two views of determinism the final one is indeterminism. Indeterminism is the view that atleast some events are uncaused. According to some defenders of free will, indeterminism must be true if free will is to be possible. If an indeterminist was to view my choice on graduating early, they would simply classify it as indeterminism. With my choice I had complete control on what i wanted, i could either stay in high school or go to college. Graduating highschool was completly under my own free will, and no one else could have possibly made my