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    Free Will Vs. Determinism

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    A large and important topic in philosophy is the idea of what us, as humans, are in control of throughout our lives. Are we in control of every moment in our life, or is our life completely mapped out for us. This question leads us to two critical terms used by philosophers, free will and determinism. I will analyze these two theories and discuss different viewpoints that philosophers have regarding free will and determinism. I will explain how they interact with one another in an attempt to…

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    proof for the existence of God he approaches it with the concept of motion. But looking deeper it really is about the issue of actuality and potentiality which Aristotle also used to analyze motion. This proof reminds us that things are in motion and move when potential motion or ‘possibility’ becomes actual motion. This is very similar to Aristotle’s explanation of motion defined as “actuality of a potentiality.” Next Aquinas tell us that only an actual motion can turn potential motion into…

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    St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica: Proofs for the Existence of God, is a thirteenth century collection of five deductive arguments that, as the name suggests, supposedly prove the existence of God. In these arguments, or proofs, as Aquinas calls them, there is the assumption that there are some things that only God is capable of making happen – such as motion and cause - and ergo, God has to exist for these things to exist. Aquinas' first argument for the existence of God is that of the…

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    John Stace's Compatibilism

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    reflected as a recurring theme in the core beliefs of the Canadian prison and judicial systems which focus on restitution and rehabilitation rather than retribution. Stace makes reference to the idea that determinism is based on the scientific study of causality and its application to humans and that if it were, in fact, to apply that much like Pavlov’s dogs humans could be psychologically conditioned to avoid or repeat behaviours via punishment or praise and that if it leads to a better life…

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    Free Will Definition

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    I chose to write this paper. I could have made the decision to do otherwise. Seemingly, multiple different courses of action were at my disposal upon beginning this endeavor; as there are now, and will be later. Intuitively, this how we see free-will—as a path leading towards an array of alternative possibilities. It seems evident that that we possess the freedom to direct our course of actions in anyway we desire. But what if this was an illusion? Such a claim is not as outlandish as it sounds…

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    142). Nothing can be the cause of itself (Palmer, 142). There cannot be an infinite regress of essentiality based on efficient causes, if there were not first cause there would be no causality (Palmer, 142). That being said Aquinas believes that there had to be a first uncaused efficient cause of all efficient causality and that is God (Palmer, 142). Again to break that down basically one thing causes another, nothing can cause itself, if you trace this back to the beginning there has to be an…

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    Goals In Field Work

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    The questions posed should be reflective of your goals and should appeal to a large audience. Committees always want to know your potential and if you can convey your ideas effectively. Before starting, find out what most interest you, not you advisor nor anyone else. If no ideas come to mind, refer back to previous studies for ideas. Develop your questions, and don’t be obsessed about perfection; a lot of factors in field work are out your control, so try several experiments at once, and work…

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    Post hoc ergo proctor hoc is a faulty Roman proverb, an early form of causality. Simply stated it implies that everything that happens after an event in a linear line has its roots in that initial event. Jared Diamond takes this theory and expands on it to cover the entire world for the past thirteen millennia. Unfortunately…

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    The present study extends previous research by suggesting that failure and rejection in a specific task may be generalized to other aspects. Specifically, the study demonstrates that people's mood is a joint function of task difficulty and their self-esteem. Such that, participants with low self-esteem reported a significantly worse mood than those with high self-esteem when assigned to the hard anagram condition. This effect was not found with participants that were assigned the easy anagram…

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    Usually, they are created from “beliefs, desires, mental features we possess, or our upbringing” (Sober, “Freedom, Determinism, and Causality”, 247). From my understanding, since our mind is only a physical and elementary object, so are our thoughts and ideas because that is where they derived from. I think that if we are just physical parts of the universe then we are all subject to…

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