Determinism: Free or Not?

The question of freedom has been a topic in philosophy for a while now. There have been many discussions of what it actually means to be free and how we should go about deciding if we are or are not free. The results are still inconclusive leaving us to give our own opinions on the matter, but before I discuss whether or not I believe we are free, I must first define for you what I believe to be the meaning of freedom. Freedom is the ability to act on your own free will, and free will brings up the topic of determinism.
Determinism then means that our actions are ultimately decided by external forces, such as the laws of nature, and are not all our own. It is plausible for some philosophers to conclude that determinism is real because it helps …show more content…
In my opinion, I believe it is reasonable to conclude determinism as a fact. The basis for this comes up in a variety of ways and the most crucial example that I can think of is the sciences. When it comes to science, the point is to study the results of the natural world around us. We explain the events of studies, or experiments based on what happened prior to cause our ending results. This goes back to what I mentioned previously relating to the law of causation. There should be no argument to the idea that every cause has a reaction. And sometimes things can go unexplained and in science there is never an absolute answer, but we still accept laws and theories as being the best ideas to explain what is currently happening in the world around us at the moment. A philosopher that would readily agree with my position on this is Harry Frankfurt. He brings a new element to my argument because in one of his papers he talks about the incompatibilists argument of alternative possibilities. In this the main argument is that when given possibilities a person can choose an alternative than his or her own previous action. This is assuming that one choice is better than the other and that we even have a choice in the first