Josh Kennedy’s film Two and a Quarter explores what a person thinks about in their final minutes before they drown. The movie starts out with a young boy who decides to drown himself, but in the two and quarter minutes it takes an average person to drown, he thinks about his past and his future. This makes him decide to get out of the pool, and in this decision he learns to appreciate the people he surrounds himself with more. However, you might argue that it wasn’t a decision for him to get out of the pool. Philosophically, you can relate this to the problem of free will. It’s been a debate for centuries whether or not we have any true power to make our daily decisions. When relating it to the stimulus you can ask if he had the choice to get in the pool. Determinism, in a philosophical sense, is the belief that all events, including every human action are determined by causes external to the will. The opposite of this is free will, or being able to make decisions without fate, being able to deliberate and make your own decision.
If you assume free will is real, that means every single thing you did today was an action you did without any determined fate saying it would happen. For instance, if the weather is cold on the …show more content…
Since the origin of the ‘inner state’ is unknown, and most of our decisions are heavily influenced by past causes you can argue against Taylor’s idea. However, he explains that “ultimate responsibility for anything that exists, and hence for any person and his deeds, can thus rest only with the first cause of all things, if there is such a cause, or nowhere at all, in there is not.” This would mean that every decision ever made would rest on the first cause. If the action created by the cause lined up with what you desire, it would appear to be free. However, if there is no causal chain, human actions are for the most part free, aside from ones made under
If you assume free will is real, that means every single thing you did today was an action you did without any determined fate saying it would happen. For instance, if the weather is cold on the …show more content…
Since the origin of the ‘inner state’ is unknown, and most of our decisions are heavily influenced by past causes you can argue against Taylor’s idea. However, he explains that “ultimate responsibility for anything that exists, and hence for any person and his deeds, can thus rest only with the first cause of all things, if there is such a cause, or nowhere at all, in there is not.” This would mean that every decision ever made would rest on the first cause. If the action created by the cause lined up with what you desire, it would appear to be free. However, if there is no causal chain, human actions are for the most part free, aside from ones made under