Everyone knows the meaning of philosophy; the love of wisdom, but does everyone know that we are philosophers every day of our lives? In the book “What does it all mean?” Nagel discuses plenty of strong arguments on many topics. Some of them being, “How do we know anything?”, “Free will”, and “The meaning of life”. Nagel has discussed these three topics based on human nature, our perception, and the external world. One of the topics, “How do we know anything?” relates to what exists in one’s mind, if it even exists and whether we view ourselves to be the only thing that exist and everything being just a figment of our own reality and imagination. “Free will” is argued to be either true or false, depending on one’s beliefs about determinism, believing that any choice we make is inevitable making us question if free will even exists.
Is it all in our heads? “If you think about, it the inside of your own mind is the only thing you can be sure of.” These exact words are on the book “What …show more content…
He calls this determinism. The fact that all our decisions are already determined therefore leaving us with no free will. He then argues that if someone were to steal something from you, can you really hold him responsible if it is true that determinism is a thing? Can you blame him for his wrongful upbringing that has led to him being tempted to steal something of yours? “Others think that it still makes sense to praise good actions and condemn bad ones, even if they were inevitable.” Nagel explains that determinism a controversial topic. If determinism was true, then why do we scold people for wrongful doing and praise others for good deeds if at the end of the day every one of their decision were already preselected and everything was supposed to happen the way it
Is it all in our heads? “If you think about, it the inside of your own mind is the only thing you can be sure of.” These exact words are on the book “What …show more content…
He calls this determinism. The fact that all our decisions are already determined therefore leaving us with no free will. He then argues that if someone were to steal something from you, can you really hold him responsible if it is true that determinism is a thing? Can you blame him for his wrongful upbringing that has led to him being tempted to steal something of yours? “Others think that it still makes sense to praise good actions and condemn bad ones, even if they were inevitable.” Nagel explains that determinism a controversial topic. If determinism was true, then why do we scold people for wrongful doing and praise others for good deeds if at the end of the day every one of their decision were already preselected and everything was supposed to happen the way it