What I believe, I believe in hard work, the type of work that will bring an individual success. One summer, after being notified of my failed grade in English the year before. I was transferred to Concord High school. This was my first time going to summer school I was not sure what to expect. Once I was dropped off, there was a board showing students names and class room they were assigned to.…
Rue 4 de Vaurobel, a six story townhome, where an innocent sixteen year old girl’s free will is robbed right from her. All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr, juxtaposes two very complex and different stories; a blind adolescent girl who is trying to find her way in a new environment and an obedient teenage boy who turns soldier after learning how to configure radios. Marie-Laure and Werner’s story are from two utterly contrasting ends of the spectrum but connect during the same time period. The definition of free will is stated as the power of acting without the restraint of necessity or fate. Marie-Laure LeBlanc has limited free will which has been developed thus far in the novel, described through two major characteristics:…
Philosophers have several ideas to answer the problem of free will. One idea is incompatibilism, which means that an individual cannot believe in both free will and determinism. In the question of free will, I believe indeterminism is true. Indeterminism states that only certain events determine a person’s future. The idea of indeterminism states that a person’s future is not fixed.…
Will, a wealthy, handsome, young, man lands himself in a critical motorcycle accident, resulting in him being paralyzed from the neck down. After his accident he lives with his parents, becomes depressed and suicidal, and only accepts visits from his doctor. His girlfriend who was with him from before the accident falls in love with his best friend. He is lonely, and has no one to talk to.…
The existence and nonexistence of free will has been debated since ancient times. Ancient Greeks believed in gods that predetermined peoples fate and this has been shown in Greek mythology such as Oedipus, Odyssey etc. Free will can be seen as the ability for someone to act according to their own discretion. Free will is the basis for the debate about moral responsibility. Some people believe that free will exist and as such we have control over our actions and decisions.…
Response Paper “The Debate Over Free Will” In chapter nine of the book Problems from Philosophy by James and Stuart Rachels, the authors discuss the debate over free will. The idea of humans having free will is the main argument in this chapter. The authors noted that the more we learn about the human behavior, the less likely it seems that we are free. Though different groups have the same meaning for free will, the goal of this chapter is to determine if we have free will or not.…
Philosophers have argued the assumption whether people have their own freedom to make decisions. In effect, Ayer suggested that people don’t have free will when influenced by constraints. In addition, Ayer defines free will as being able to choose otherwise. However, people don’t have freedom if there threaten or an addict. I agree with Ayer’s claim that people don’t have free will when under constraints which cause people to make decisions.…
Free will – fact or myth? Such tendencies immediately bring up a question whether we are truly free to think for ourselves or, on the contrary, are told what to do with no choice of our own whatsoever. We are, in fact, more free to express our opinion online with consequences close to none, although, since people are exposed to the tendencies of the community more and more, they tend to notice what is considered favorable by other members of society and even start adopting speech behaviors and certain attitudes, up to a point where they change their personality entirely. This not only affects their choices as a being, but also their views towards subjects crucial in their surrounding and personal environments, such as politics, their physical…
I would like this project to serve as a translation of my personal beliefs, experiences and knowledge learned from various courses about death. What I mean by translation is aside from articulating my beliefs about death in the form of words, or solely as a two-dimensional drawing, I would like to create a three-dimensional piece. I want observers to “see” what I see when I think about death and to get my observers to think about their own conceptions and beliefs about death. To accomplish this objective I propose a four piece art project. The first piece will capture transformative death, the second biological death and the third final death.…
Free will acts as a distinguishing factor along a thin line that divides humans and animals. The attributing factors that lend humans, more specifically a person, the essential difference can be found in the structure of their wills. However, free will is much more complex than one would think, as is soon discovered when considering free will in terms of incriminating a defendant or other cases in which a distinction is made between free will of desires and free will of actions. Harry G. Frankfurt outlines through his hierarchical model of will the capacity for self-evaluation and “the notion of an effective desire-one that moves a person all the way to action”, thus illuminating a slightly problematic view of 1st order and 2nd order desires…
Humans decisions are in the hands of each own. Their opportunity to make use of each decision expresses our free will. In life, humans determine whether their freedom of making their decision is too extreme, and if they should make that decision or not. Sometimes that pushes us to our limit and forces us to do things we are not usually accustomed to doing. While we express the opportunity to showcase free will, there are limits that can stop the idea of it, for example laws.…
A large and important topic in philosophy is the idea of what us, as humans, are in control of throughout our lives. Are we in control of every moment in our life, or is our life completely mapped out for us. This question leads us to two critical terms used by philosophers, free will and determinism. I will analyze these two theories and discuss different viewpoints that philosophers have regarding free will and determinism. I will explain how they interact with one another in an attempt to confirm my belief that yes, we have free will even if determinism is true.…
There has been many different theories about the topic of Free will. For instance, does free will even truly exist, is it defined by our own religious beliefs or is it simply brought on by cause and effect. Free will is nothing more than our own personal freedom to make choices in our lives. It can be brought on by an urge or naturally carefree feeling, to be able to choose with out the interference or opinions of others. A free course of action driven by our own means of self gratification for the betterment of oneself.…
My personal belief is that God has a plan for my life and is based on my faith, steadfastness, and patience. I will never become a victim to irrational fears and doubts again. I believe God will always give me a sign to guide me through the darkness of disappointments and frustrations in life. I believe without God…I could never do anything…
Free Will and Determinism have been discussed by philosophers for many years. Free will is associated with moral responsibility, and alternative actions that “could have” been taken over the one chosen. Determinism is the opposite view, and is associated with universal causation, and a lack of free will. Determinists believe that a person’s actions are inevitable, they are dictated by a person’s experiences, they believe nurture, nature, and even a person’s genes determine their future actions. Because of this determinists believe people hold no moral responsibility for their actions.…