Free agent

No, the fact of evil does not make it irrational to believe in God. Evil is real and is a result of our free will, which, I will argue, is the only plausible way God, who is characterized by His full attributes described in traditional theism, could have destined humanity to live. Further, a free world where evil exists is the only world where humans may become complete creations. In a free world, where we are presented with genuine choices of right or wrong, we are therefore able to grow…

In Greg Miller’s Wired article “Did Brain Scans Just Save a Convicted Murderer From the Death Penalty?”, John McCluskey, a prisoner escaped from an Arizona prison, carjacked a retired couple, shot them inside the camping trailer they were towing behind their truck and set the trailer on fire with their bodies still inside. Despite his reprehensible act of crime, John McCluskey’s lawyers successfully convinced the jury that the convict has several brain defects and that his action was a result…

on what you believe in. It’s all about fate and free will. Fate believes things happen because that’s the path God intended for you to pursue. It’s almost like God wrote down your entire life when you were born and that’s supposed to be the way it goes. It’s a path you must follow, while free will is setting your future with the present. The story of Macbeth is a tragedy. It is often played that fate and free will play a huge part in Macbeth. Is free will heroic or evil or is fate heroic or…

enduring age-old discussion regarding the existence of the independence or dependence of free will on moral responsibility are arguments supported by philosophers such as Robert Kane and Hume. There are those that contend that free will does not exists while others believe we have control over our actions. The existence of free will without moral responsibility will be explored through the arguments of free will and determinism, while the dependency will be discussed based on the “maxim”…

around the individual’s ability to function within a deterministic universe while still maintaining some form of free will. This universe is largely deterministic, and human lives are most likely predetermined by an unbroken chain of parental influence since the dawn of complex life. Humanity, however has the privilege of being able to make their own choices, although the concept of true free will is largely inaccurate considering the factors that go into a single person’s choice. Factors such…

Additionally, I will demonstrate that we are not caused to have freewill or to be free as well as illustrate how his claims on the relationship between freewill and moral responsibility contravenes each other. Frankfurt begins by introducing several crucial definitions. He defines the term ‘first-order desires’ as a desire to act or do…

This will dissolve and oxidize copper into Cu2+. The solution was then heated to remove the brown NOx fume. This is necessary since NOx acts as an oxidizing agent and will oxidize I in the redox reaction to be observed. When all NOx fume is removed, H2SO4 was added and the solution was heated until white SO3 fumes appear. The addition of H2SO4 will drives off all nitrogen oxide gas that can interfere with…

problematically, many people use as a means of determining what a meaningful life is. Taylor explains in his book The Ethics of Authenticity, “The general feature of human life that I want to evoke is its fundamentally dialogical character. We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining an identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression…No one acquires the languages needed for self-definition on their own. We are introduced to them…

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…

This ‘inconvenience’ is much preferred as the “perpetual warre of every man against his neighbour, are much worse.” This brings about the emergence of the social contract, where there is either mutual agreement of free individuals under the state of nature to submit themselves to a sovereign or the fear of the power of an existing sovereign. Sovereignty must be unconditional but there is however a contradiction and lack of justification since Hobbes has put forth…