Do you have something in your hands? If you do not at the moment, then I would like you to grab a small object, like a pencil for instance. Once you have something in your hands, I would like you to drop it. What occurred after the drop? Your object fell, right? Did your pencil or object have the option to impede its fall? No, because your object cannot make its own decisions. This exemplifies the opposite of having the freedom to make our own decisions. Free will often bewilder many people because its complex and abstract mechanism. Despite all the research and theories done by intellectuals, many people remain perplexed because they do not how to differentiate both of them. However, free will and destiny each shows different perspectives
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According to Shelly Kagan, a Yale Philosophy professor, deterministic laws can be compared to computers. He claims, “when a computer, say, is carrying out its operations, it just follows the laws of physics. And the laws of physics are deterministic” (Kagan 43). What does that necessarily signify? It means that the computer simply has no control over the instructions that it is asked to do. Determinists often compare humans to other things that do not have free will, such as computers, because free will does not exist but rather predetermined. They believe that the choices you and I make are all part of an intricate predesigned plan. An example of this can be found in the cliché that we all have the perfect match. These people believe in destiny and in the existence of their soul mate. Deterministic laws functions in the way that all the moments in your life have all been arranged in a certain way because your life should be going that way. While you may think that you are creating new memories freely, they have already been prearranged for you so that you end up meeting “the …show more content…
They believe that the laws created by a higher authority limit their freedom up to the point where it robs our “free will”. For example, people do not necessarily have the freedom to go and kill another person, because there are laws against that. People may think that we do have the freedom to a kill a person but they also know that they cannot do so because of the consequences waiting for them once the crime is committed. Another example occurs when culture molds how we live our lives. Society forces the idea of pursuing a college degree order to have a successful life. Thus, many people pursue one even if they do not want to do that in life. Many high school graduates think that they have a choice to pursue a college career or not but society pushes them to do so. This once again robs them of their freedom to their decisions. Thus, many opponents of free will use these obligations and cultures as a way to demonstrate that free will does not exist since our choices are
According to Shelly Kagan, a Yale Philosophy professor, deterministic laws can be compared to computers. He claims, “when a computer, say, is carrying out its operations, it just follows the laws of physics. And the laws of physics are deterministic” (Kagan 43). What does that necessarily signify? It means that the computer simply has no control over the instructions that it is asked to do. Determinists often compare humans to other things that do not have free will, such as computers, because free will does not exist but rather predetermined. They believe that the choices you and I make are all part of an intricate predesigned plan. An example of this can be found in the cliché that we all have the perfect match. These people believe in destiny and in the existence of their soul mate. Deterministic laws functions in the way that all the moments in your life have all been arranged in a certain way because your life should be going that way. While you may think that you are creating new memories freely, they have already been prearranged for you so that you end up meeting “the …show more content…
They believe that the laws created by a higher authority limit their freedom up to the point where it robs our “free will”. For example, people do not necessarily have the freedom to go and kill another person, because there are laws against that. People may think that we do have the freedom to a kill a person but they also know that they cannot do so because of the consequences waiting for them once the crime is committed. Another example occurs when culture molds how we live our lives. Society forces the idea of pursuing a college degree order to have a successful life. Thus, many people pursue one even if they do not want to do that in life. Many high school graduates think that they have a choice to pursue a college career or not but society pushes them to do so. This once again robs them of their freedom to their decisions. Thus, many opponents of free will use these obligations and cultures as a way to demonstrate that free will does not exist since our choices are