Determinism

philosophers arguing about the existence of free will. There are philosophers like Machan who believes a person are able to cause their actions, while others believe it is determine by something else. A philosopher named Blatchford is part of the hard determinism family where he denies the existence of free will because of two things— heredity and environment. From Blatchford standpoint, he believes that heredity and environment controls a person’s decisions and morals. Early in the passage,…

Past and My Death, and evaluate how both of these aspects are insufficient accounts of our freedom in the face of facticity. We shall focus on if one were to accept Sartre's ontological freedom this is an insufficient existence which ignores the determinism in the world rather than embracing it to find a solution. Sartre is responding to the criticism that one can never truly be free because of the limitations placed upon an individual, referred to as facticities. While it is that Sartre…

History can be viewed as an utterance of one very long sentence. There is a famous philosophical argument concerning our history and our future; the argument states that if determinism is true, and the past and the laws of the universe determine the future, then individuals do not hold sway over what is to come. In the simpler words of Leucippus, "Nothing occurs at random, but everything for a reason and by necessity".There are two kinds of actions; those that depend on free will and those that…

The closer to optimal functioning individual does not develop Substance Use Disorder through a number of environmental, social, biological, and cognitive reasons. Bandura (1986) examined the different theories of human determinism and found no one link to optimal functioning. While socioeconomic factors could weigh heavy into adverse development, it was not the overriding factor. Learned behavior through positive and negative outcomes (resiliency) was as likely to aid one’s functioning in the…

Determinism is that all events that happen are predetermined by causes external to the will of the world. As the narrator describes, “The hid pools of water under the snow that might be three inches deep, or three feet. Sometimes a skin of ice half an inch…

Destiny is events that are necessary to happen to every individual in the future. Free will is the power of acting without consent, it is the ability to act as one’s discretion. Everyone has their own predestination and free will and as they go on their life, they begin to unfold their destiny event by event. Some events are turning points in a person's life. Having determination of free will can change the course of the events that can avoid disaster or benefit from it. Evidence by the…

Introduction Discussion regarding free will is inescapable in philosophy, as a correct characterization of free will is paramount in comprehending our place in the world, as well as how to navigate it. Spinoza and Descartes have both conjured up an interpretation of free will that is consistent with their own systems of metaphysics but drastically different from the conclusions of their counterparts. In this essay, I will summarize and contrast their views, and demonstrate how each of their…

We are driven by our environment, biology and unconscious influence around us as free will is a state of mind. Free will is the idea that we have a choice in how we act and it assumes that we are unrestricted in choosing our actions, therefore we stand self-determined. We have the power to act without constraint of necessity or fate of discretion and a person remains in control of their own life. The idea of free will gives humans reason to exist. As if free will does not exist, then we live…

The Situation comes in Part IV of Sartre’s Being and Nothingness and aims to explain how it is that one can be free in the face of the deterministic nature of our existence. This essay aims to explain how Sartre sees that there are aspects of existence which can be seen to restrict one's freedom, but under an ontological freedom these restrictions are nonexistent. These restrictions are referred to by existentialism as ‘facticitcity’ meaning the objective fact about the external world which are…

Hegel is committed to dialectical progress of time, and he is a determist. He believes that history follows a specific path that is predetermined by the purposeful movement through time. Nothing happens by chance according to Hegel, which eliminates things happening by chance yet contingency does consist in the world. Therefore, he believed that if anything did happen by chance it did not matter. Hegel seeks the first principles of nature, and does not judge through objective facts or outside…