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Homesick Love “Fate and free will are equally powerful forces, but I consider free will to be more important, as it is your free will that determines your fate.” - Vyasa. In Romeo and Juliet, it is a controversial topic whether fate or free will is more prevalent in the play. In the play Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, free will is expressed clearly through the hard choices, and situations the characters decide to put themselves in. This is evident when Romeo and Juliet got…

right place.” Marriam-webster defines free will as, “freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by…

If we live in a world where free will existed we would always be morally responsible for our actions because we always have options to do otherwise, this is known as the principle of alternate possibilities. For now let us assume that we live in a determinist world where our life events are predetermined would we be responsible for our actions even though we have no control over them? It is very hard to imagine how someone could possibly be responsible for actions they had no control over but…

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. In the first place, some constraints are threats that…

Gentry Fate, Destiny and Free Will in Oedipus the King Before I analyze the play I have to first define what Fate, Destiny and Free will is. I think Fate is development of events that are outside of one’s control and those events are predetermined by the Gods or supernatural powers. On the other side Free Will is when one controls their own actions. Concepts of Fate, Free will and Destiny are common in Oedipus the King. Even though the choices Oedipus made were of his own free will, I think…

Human action is shown as determined as everything else. It also shows that it cannot be the case that causes are the reason events occur (uncaused or undetermined by cause). This definition of free will takes into account that in order to be held morally responsible for ones actions, one must be justly punished or rewarded. It also takes into account that one should not punish a man for what he cannot help doing. It begs the important question…

world have some sort of consensus to what free will is and that is the ability to make choices. To my beliefs, free will is the sense in which individuals can consciously think to themselves on what they want to do, whether that is getting the fish instead of chicken for dinner or deciding to run for president. Even though we have the option to always make the right decision, we often make the wrong one, this agrees on the principle that we do not have free will, because if we did have ability…

In different philosophies and literary works, the ideas of fate and free will have always contradicted each other, creating tension. The difference between the two concepts is evident; free will advocates choice and the ability to shape your own future, while fate governs your actions for the rest of your life, similar to the Calvinist belief of predestination in regards to salvation. Having such distinct natures, how is it possible for these two ideas to coexist and sometimes merge into one…

perfectly illustrates that battle. The theme of fate and free will, as revealed in Macbeth, continues to relate to modern society. People all over the world believe different things. Whether they believe in God, karma or nothing, the theme still affects their everyday life. The question I posed at the beginning may never have a definite answer, but we can still speculate. Maybe through Macbeth’s timeline, we can gain a further insight into how fate and free will plays a role in our own lives.…

everything happens because something causes it to happen. If someone’s actions are causally determined, could we say he or she had the free will to choose them? As a proponent of soft determinism, Hume would answer yes. For Hume, the seeming incompatibility of determinism and free will is merely a…