Free Thinking Essay

Chaucer often incorporates actions in the Canterbury Tales that are considered risqué or indecent, especially during the time period in which he wrote the stories. By doing this, Chaucer adds a comical aspect to his writing, which is prevalent when analyzing the plots of the tales. In the Shipman's Tale, there are many characteristics of "uncivilized free and wild thinking". This creativity sparks attention in readers and gives extra value to the work as a whole. The basic plot structure shows Chaucer's uncivilized style of writing. With most of the story being about lying, trickery and cuckolding. This adds a comedic effect, because the Shipman's Tale was designed to be taken lightly and jokingly. To the readers of the Canterbury Tales, this story may seem uncivilized, as the plot includes a wife cheating on her husband with a monk, and both the monk and wife lying to the husband to get his money. The plot of the Shipman's Tale demonstrates how Chaucer's uncivilized free and wild thinking adds to the creativeness and overall value of the works as a whole.…

George Orwell's 1984 is a novel stressing the importance of free thinking and the dangers of an intensely controlling government. This was written to be set in the future, 1984, since it was written in 1948. This society is made up of three main powers in the world, Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. This novel is placed in London which is now part of Oceania. The government of Oceania is lead by a figure called Big Brother. All of the citizens are monitored with government placed telescreens.…

blessed with the power of free will, you are in charge of the choices you make and the consequences that come along with them. You are the master of your own fate and you are responsible for your future. You are in charge of yourself, the choice is yours on how you plan on living your life. Everybody wants to be free and everybody intends on creating the most extravagant life they possibly…

inclination, genuine thinking is largely unpracticed in American society. The two forces that drive societies anti-philosophical train of thought is a strong inclination towards action and a thirst for facts. Facts have the capacity to be verified and put to practical use whereas; philosophical theories don’t have valid implications. World history shows; traditions, habits and customs keep society in order. While, genuine thinking, original thought, and human reflection can break down the walls…

question should be, what is free will and do we have it? The definition of free will is not a simple answer. Free will tries to account for our introspective belief that we have control of our actions and as a result, our own destiny. Nothing in our lives is predetermined and every cause has an effect. Human actions are caused, but we can consider actions free if they are the result of internal motivations rather than external events, a belief known as soft determinism. Some philosophers like…

How do you think of free? Do you think to be free is only means to get out of one’s control and keep yourself free or is to use your hands to be respect and enhance the freedom of others? Before I finish reading the book “Looking for Alibrandi”, I may believe that get out of one’s control is the meaning of to be free. However, when I finish reading the book, I started wondering, living in a way of respects and enhances the freedom of others is the truly meaning of “to be free”. Therefore, I…

In this paper I will argue Sam Harris's opinion on free will is not comprehensive in terms of philosophical view because he does not pay attention on the role played by the spirit level of a person cooperating with the human nervous system; because if there is no such thing as "Free will", we cannot take responsibility of our own action. Whether free will exist is a controversial question philosopher have debated on for many years. Like Sam Harris's opinion that free will is mostly derived from…

In the beginning, he was not morally responsible for his actions because they were not actions that he wanted to take voluntarily, but actions controlled by his condition. On another case, if a child is born with a genetic condition of being violent, the child will have not have free will completely because the child will not think clearly because he will be overcome by his anger. But once he gets psychological help for his anger problem, then he will have control over his actions, have complete…

The Free Will Problem Hard Determinism is the best possible answer to the free will problem. It is the theory that past event’s directly cause future events, therefore, the future is casually determined. While this may seem like a daunting thought, it isn’t. Some will argue that Hard Determinism is not the best true, Libertarians are a good example of these kinds of people. They believe that we are able to directly influence events that happen, and how they happen, directly choosing our future.…

Free will or Determinism? These are two sides of an argument that has endured many years of debate and thought. Determinism is the belief that whatever is going to happen or is happening was inevitable and “choice is an illusion” (Baumeister R. 2009), that we can completely predict a person’s behavior. We can’t even think or decide freely, we are constrained to act only as we are ordained to act (Pollard L. 2008). Sometimes the belief brings in the being of God and how people are already in a…