Causality

The medieval will-based theory was a theory developed by medieval philosophers. This theory established a relationship between freedom and free will. Philosophers believed that our freedom to act was determined by our will, our capacity for decision making. In other words, our freedom of actions was based on our ability to decide and choose how to act. Therefore, making us completely free. These actions are known as voluntary actions, due to the fact that these actions can only be performed on…

Stawson’s thesis in this article was that people cannot be ultimately morally responsible for their actions because they cannot be the cause of their actions. There are three views when it comes to moral responsibility. Stawson believes in a deterministic view. This is that every action is determined by a set of previous actions. Stawson in this article first starts by laying out his main arguments for this: nothing can be causa sui, the cause of itself, in order to be responsible for your…

Think of an urge that is almost uncontrollable to ignore. This is what the citizens of Strasbourg began to feel in July of the year 1518. All along the streets, and anywhere that could be seen, the people of the city were involved in an uncontrollable dance. Only heart attacks and strokes would result in the ending of the dance. While this may sound unbelievable, or unintelligent, the victims could not help their ill-decided fate. When the first woman, known as Frau Troffea, began to dance,…

In today’s day and age one highly controversial topic of debate is religion. Has God become obsolete with all the scientific progress the human race has made in the past few decades? Lewis Vaughn explains in his book Philosophy: Here and Now ( pg. 64-66) St. Thomas Aquinas’s evidence for God. Aquinas’ arguments for the existence of God are known as the first-cause argument and the argument from motion. Aquinas explains that in the universe everything is moving and caused by something, for…

Giovanni’s Room: Cause/Effect The novel “Giovanni’s Room” by James Baldwin surrounds itself in the main characters confusing. The main character named David goes through many mistakes since he does not know what he wants in life. David has hurt himself emotionally, as well as other people. According to Colm Tóibín, in an interview in 1980 the author James Baldwin has said that most of his inspiration came from his real life experience. According Baruch’s College interview with James Baldwin,…

In response to Aquinas, Paul Edwards argues against the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Aquinas’ assertion that an infinite regress is impossible. Regarding Aquinas’ use of the reduction and absurdum in his Third Way, Edwards argues Aquinas does not succeed in proving an infinite regress is impossible. Edwards asserts one can acknowledge God’s existence, and thus the existence of all which follows from God’s existence, without acknowledging God as “the first member of the series.” According…

explain this I will first need to explain what Hume means by Impressions and Ideas by means of how Hume claims we perceive the world. An Impression is how we perceive the world as we perceive it at the present, anything that is happening right now that you can perceive is an impression and Hume says this is a very forceful and lively way of perception. An example would be that if you are walking your dog you are having a forceful and lively impression because you perceiving it now. Wile an Idea…

One of Aristotle’s essential views on Nature is his idea of the four major “causes.” These four is causes are material cause, formal cause, the moving cause, and final cause. Matter, is the physical composition of the object: the components it is created out of. Form is the way in which these parts are put together which includes the properties of the object and the functions that arise from it. The moving cause is the thing which about an event or an action, and the final cause is the reason…

impact the surrounding ecosystems in a negative way. This can be referred to as forest fragmentation. Forest fragmentation negatively affects the forests connectivity and function. Fragmentation caused by mine reclamation is said to be “two-sided because both the effect that natural habitat has on the restored area, and the effect the restored area has on natural habitat.” (Craig et al. 2015) It is known “edge effects increase with increasing contrast between habitats forming the edge with…

Introduction: _Have you ever done something in your life that gave you a thrill like you have never had before? For example, you played the best game of your entire life and you 're on cloud nine or you ride a roller coaster for the very first time. This is the same experience that methamphetamine users experience. It 's a thrill, a rush, but its the beginning of an addiction that is very hard to get rid of. Methamphetamine isn 't usually drug that many people pick up for the first time. It…