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    of the character’s good intentions. Macbeth, from Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, is, without a doubt, one of the most prevalent tragic heroes throughout all works of literature. Macbeth is a tragic hero as he possesses noble stature, a tragic flaw, free choice, an increased awareness of his downfall, and a punishment that exceeds his crimes, all while producing a catharsis in the audience. Macbeth fits the role of a tragic hero in the fact that he has noble stature. Macbeth begins the story a…

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    Free will equals freedom and freedom is what allows people to do what they please. God does not allow anything other than creative state of being which means freedom. Freedom is what leads to sin and consequently evil.Freedom also leads to growth and life it self. Free will allows for us to determine good from evil, without evil we wouldn’t know good. In the book of Genesis Adam and…

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    The essay regarding evil and its relation to free will entitled “The Argument from Evil” by Peter Van Inwagen proposes many questions and contradictions. All of which relate back to one principle idea—the problem of evil and how to solve it. At the end of his compilation of ideas, propositions and examples, Van Inwagen poses a slew of questions for his readers to ponder and attempt to answer. Peter Van Inwagen is adamant upon insisting that there both is and is not a God. He proposes this as he…

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    discovers that not everyone believes as he is taught to believe. This discovery prompts him to begin to adjust his belief system and finally his character. Of course it is possible that both forces can play equal parts in defining character, but anywhere free thought is allowed, it make sense that choice would be the prevailing factor in character development. And so, each person decides his or her own behavior and his or her…

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    beings to make critical decisions regarding our future, and what we choose to pursue. These choices can make or break a situation, because who knows what outcomes can be created out of the decisions that we make. This is determined by our usage of free will, majority of the time correlating with fate itself. Depending on our decisions can await a new destiny that we can live towards. And it was because of these causes that led to a young comic…

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    Marley Lyster PHIL 1000 Assignment 2 Prompt 2 Susan Wolf’s compatibilist predisposition evaluates moral responsibility with her “Deep Self View.” Not only does she argue that events can be fully fixed and determined and one can have some freedom in action, but also that the agent only has moral responsibility in these actions if they are in control of their deepest desires (Wolf, 460). After presenting this view, Wolf uses her example of JoJo to demonstrate a hole in her own Deep Self View that…

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    The important question of free will is as follows; Are humans really ever able to control their actions and decisions? Richard Taylor a 20th century philosopher has written a relevant and thought provoking article entitled Fate, where in he attempts to answer this question. Taylor believes in the philosophical doctrine of fatalism, a view closely related to hard determinism. There is a clear and concise difference between these two theories. Fatalism can be defined simply as: “the belief that…

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    equate to the idea that we have free will. Well, I believe this is quite simple. If there is probability then how can a prediction be right 100 percent of the time? thus if there is no set outcome then this would prove determinism wrong, thus leading to the fact that from this free will would exist. Thus my conclusion on determinism is that it is wrong in assuming that there…

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    double bind. Sexism includes both sex-marking and sex-announcing, I will talk about how it’s important to recognize the counterpoint to her argument and just some things I think should be added. The last point is coercion and exploitation and how the free will of women essentially does not exist, I will counter this with my thoughts on the issue.…

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    Incompatibilism and compatibilism are theories about the relationship between determinism and free will. Compatibilism is the idea that free will and determinism can coexist. Incompatibilists deny this by way of two theories; the denial of determinism (libertarianism) and the denial of free will. Determinism is the theory that every event was determined by a previous existing cause. Given the laws of nature and the initial state of the universe, there is only one possible course of history;…

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