Determinism

Cesare Beccaria was famous for his paper on crimes and punishments. This paper was about his belief of condemning torture, the discretion of judges, the inconsistency of sentencing, as well as the use of capital punishment. This paper went through many editions and was translated into English and French. Many scholars loved his paper as well as many vowed to follow his writings. He never published another paper close to his famous one, however he made several incomplete ones. The paper on crimes…

are evident in the gene makeup of fellow killers. In addition, those who believe human behavior is based off of nature utilize the term biological determinism in order to explain their opinion. Biological determinism refers to the idea that all human behavior is innate, determined by genes, brain size, or other biological features. Biological determinism is known widely to be science-based and possess an anthropological approach that aids in understanding criminality. Several thought criminals…

Linguistic determinism says that language determines the way we interpret the world. Linguistic relativity states that if language determines thought, then speakers of different languages will experience the world differently and that thought is relative to language. 13. How would you define linguistic relativity versus linguistic determinism? (p. 93) Linguistic Relativity states that if language determines thought, then speakers…

Thomas Nagel is an author and an American philosopher. In his book “What Does It All Mean?”, Nagel teases us by asking multiple questions about certain aspects of life to us, ranging from free will to the meaning of life itself. In each chapter of the book, Nagel discusses a different topic and goes into depth explaining it based on his view of the subject. The questions he poses are puzzling and doesn’t give us a “correct” answer, since he leaves it up to us to interpret it however way we want…

Does greater responsibility come with greater power? That is if you have a special ability (e.g. one acquired through training as an engineer) to do good (e.g., help those in need), do you thereby have a moral obligation to do good? In other words, would it be morally wrong for you to not use your special engineering skills to do good, or even as much good as possible? Be sure to interact with the Robichaud reading when answering these questions In my opinion, power without a purpose becomes…

Friedrich Engels in the mid-nineteenth century. The economic world becomes the base for the rest of the world or the “superstructure produced by the base” (Parker 221). This concept of economics being the cause for everything else is called “economic determinism or economism” (221). To Marx, this concept began with what he called “division of labor” that led into the development of different classes, which included capitalist merchants and workers. These classes were defined by Marx as “the…

regionalism in his writings; in "To Build a Fire", it says "He was a newcomer in the land, a chechaquo, and this was his first winter." This shows regionalism because in that specific area they call a newcomer a chechaquo. Determinism is another literary movement used; determinism is something that is predetermined and there is nothing a character can do to change it. In "To Build a Fire" London writes, "It did not lead him to mediate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's…

Even if they did not add to the list, according to explanations of intervention elements, it is easily understood that reciprocal determinism also used in a 3-month intervention period. Interestingly, the authors did not give any good reasons why they choose particularly those specific constructs, and did not choose the rest. They mentioned from SCT only ones under Intervention title…

When trying to determine whether someone is an agent, child or not, there are many ways to come to a conclusion. A method that I am a fan of is to define ‘agent’ and then see if the subject will fit the definition. Agent as defined by our text book, is ‘A person who acts freely and knowingly’. Free will is defined by our textbook as “the power of acting without the constraint; the ability to act at one's own will, a gift from God’. In order for this to be true, you must have the ability to make…

The matrix of domination refers to the configuration of race, class and gender relations in society that together intertwine and establish a system of domination. It states that no one characteristics can be fully understood without taking into account the other characteristics. An example of this is that while males are the "dominant" gender, a black male will have more disadvantages than a white male. It is vital to take into account race, class and gender in order to come up with a system…