Environmental determinism

Humans only have free will when they are aware of the fact that they are making logical decisions and judgments. In order to have free will, humans must make logical decisions. Logical decisions are reaching a conclusion after careful consideration of multiple options. Examples of logical decisions are thought suppression and mental control. Though both of these have been proven to increase the thought of a certain subject in the long term, there is a slight moment after the thought of…

someone do this?” a common thought to many people. A question that has been around for a long time. Which sparks the debate, do people choose to do things of their own free will or is it predisposed by something else? This is the start to defining determinism and free will. Theories float around about people doing things because it’s in their genes, or it’s the environment, or it’s their subconscious taking control. All these take away the blame and leave you open to cry victim of circumstance.…

to the theory of hard determinism Within Philosophical school of thought determinism describes that all events are completely determined by previously existing causes. According to this thinking, a person in a given situation may think that he is able to do this or that, but in every case the stars, the law of physics, his character, the conditioning he has received or something else makes him unable to do any but one thing. Ted Honderich says “If our theory of determinism is true, then all of…

Marisa Paris Humanities 220 Professor Cope 11/17/14 One of the benefits of comparing multiple different pieces of work is the ability it gives us to form our own opinions. Although the pieces of work may be from varying time periods, or unchanged time periods, each of them still include certain aspects that are virtually the same. For example, The Gospel of Luke, Paul’s Letter to the Romans, and Augustine’s Confessions, all present alike views on the idea of free will. A loose definition of…

Literature, often has a moral message embedded in it, the theme plays a crucial role to serve as a reflection of humanity’s actions. The concept of free will vs. fate, argues whether an individual has the choice to determine their future in a society that has already cast one’s fate. In theory, fate constrained free will by assigning each individual a role at birth, thus enforcing a stereotype to shape the individual life. On the contrary, free will states that an individual has the right to…

The concept of fate, the idea that there is a higher power that controls every aspect of one’s life, has plagued mankind since the dawn of philosophy. According to an article called “When it comes to fate, even non-believers believe”, "Among God-believers, 84.8 percent reported some degree of belief in fate, 13.0 percent reported they were neutral and 2.2 percent denied belief in fate." Almost everyone believes in fate at some point in their life; although, the event in their life where fate…

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…

Free will is a right that every person is born with and has till the day they die. Starting as a blank slate with no influences. As people age, mature, and experience new things the debate of free will comes up. Free will is the ability to act without restraint or fate, to act on one’s own discretion. Many people believe humans have lost free will, or simply do not have it anymore. As a person, the right to free will never fades, sometimes clouded by others opinions or judgments, but the choice…

Within this essay, I will argue that Galen Strawson’s basic argument, presented in Your Move: The Maze of Free Will, is correct about the impossibility of ultimate moral responsibility. I will do this by first explaining the argument, then raising an objection that concerns self-creation, and finally refuting the objection. Strawson’s basic argument can be boiled down to the simple notion that one cannot be ultimately morally responsible. He claims that anything you do in any circumstance is…

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…