Free College Essays

Andrew Hanauska Jim Churchill-Dicks Writing 122 March 4 2024 Should Public College Tuition be Free? When it comes to the topic of public college tuition being free, a little more than half of us would readily agree that it should be free. According to Finance Online by Chang J. 52% of all U.S. citizens believe in free public college tuition. Personally, I believe that public college tuition should be free because it connects directly to my personal core values of fairness, opportunity, and…

The idea of free will as an illusion has become a hot topic in neuroscience, still even nearly twenty years after this article was penned, due to the controversy it attracts regarding morals and self-determination. Tom Wolfe argues, in a rather snarky tone consistently seen throughout the article, that the concept of a self is dead—much like Nietzsche’s preceding declaration that God is dead. However, the concept of self is not yet dead in neuroscience like Wolfe predicted. Rather, more…

The True Puppeteer What is free will? Is it a false belief or an idea of human actions? Paul Halbach believes that human beings do not have ‘free will’, because he is a determinist. A determinist believes that all human choices, events, actions, and reactions are all already determined. Holbach argues that ,us, human beings as physical objects, that only obey the un-mutable laws of nature, and that the environment we live in, influences our cognitive thinking that fuels our actions, the way we…

. Another atheist argument is that if God was the first cause, God must himself have been the effect of some cause. If not, then the premise that every effect has a cause is untrue, and God could not have created the universe because he could not have been "the first cause." There is just as much evidence that some other phenomenon created the universe, such as the Big Bang. Another argument for atheism examines the presence of evil on Earth. If God is omnibenevolent, how can he allow such evil…

Free will has always been something that I thought was obvious to be true. However, after learning different perspectives and theories about the matter, I am not so confident in my conclusion. Free will versus determinism has been debated by philosophers for millennia. These major ideas of discussion have a variety of different interpretations. Whether we are deciding between major, life changing paths, or simply, opting to wear a sweater instead of a t-shirt on a given day; the selections we…

no shelter and no help depending on the situation- if applicable to those kind of resources. That one person must make a choice to do the things that are needed to be done from a day to day bases. “After the district judge Sid Harle” said he was a free man (CBS,p1). Michael Morton was charged of something didn’t do, but merely he has a fresh chance to start over in his life or go backwards and get convicted as a resolution of being wrongfully convicted in the first place do to the justice…

not to participate through their own insight are given a voice in these activities. According to Hadar Ma’ayan’s (2010) article, Erika, who has a Hispanic background from his study, was able to express herself more freely after being introduced to free choice and interactive literature circles with her group. Student choice appropriately gives a voice to the silenced and troubled. If teachers’ would allow students the freedom to choose what they would like to read, students would far more…

Discussing Kane and Self Forming Actions This essay looks to discuss Kane’s self-forming actions, or SFAs, and looks to see if they are successful in defending a libertarian conception of free will. First essay will explain what SFAs are. Next, the essay challenges the validity of SFAs on the grounds that Kane`s account of freedom lacks a proper external story. It finds this to be true, and concludes that SFAs cannot then save libertarianism as they are not valid. According to Kane most…

Determinism Free Will and Religiosity Introduction: Free will as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary is the ability to choose how to act, or the ability to make choices that are not controlled by fate or God. While determinism is a theory or doctrine that acts of the will, occurrences in nature, or social or psychological phenomena are casually determined by preceding events or natural laws, or as a belief in predestination. Another word worth defining is religiosity which is the quality…

In The Condemned of Altona, there is the internal and external conflict of free will and whether or not it can be controlled by a person. Father, the patriarch, father of three, and an almost too true to be a real businessman, is shown as someone how follows society and loves money and power. Franz, the eldest son, said to be dead, is an ex-soldier who despised the Nazis, enlisted in the Russian army and later the American army, but lives life thinking what he done was right, but later feeling…