Free agent

Free will is a term that has been in debate, for many years now and still is a concept of modern philosophy. As this idea of free will can be seen as one thing or another. For example, as in the reading of “Free Will” by Sam Harris it is mentioned how free will is just a delusion and how the belief in free will ties up to all that humans appreciate. Additionally, as others may say that we are the aware source of our ideas and movements in the present. Harris also remarks on the reading how “You…

ly free to answer this question, probably not, otherwise in most cases people would choose not too do work over doing it, however is that because I’m not free to answer this question, or I do have the freedom but choose to answer it because I want to complete my degree. Free will is simply the ability to choose a certain action, therefore every action we take in life is taken there and then, and has not been pre-planned for us. Free will is the idea that we ourselves are effectively free moral…

God informs Abraham that he would become “the father of many nations” and would receive a vast land (Genesis 17:5-8 NIV). The completion of this prophecy depended on Abraham's free decision to trust and have faith in God. Many free decisions would lead to his descendants leaving egypt, because Moses freely chose to trust and obey God (Exodus 3:18-4:17 NIV). Nowhere in these passages indicate that God forced these decisions, in fact Moses and God argued…

he is the one chosen to destroy the matrix. When the oracle told Neo that either him or Morpheus will die and yet when he walks out of the oracle house’s door he will forget everything he heard, Neo was not necessarily going to forget but begin to free his mind as Morpheus has told him. Fate was before Neo but forgetting it by being unattached from the system which he was part of would introduce a different…

Is free will compatible with determinism? That’s the most philosophical question asked. Free will is the power or ability to make a choice for which one can be held responsible for. Determinism is the thesis that at any time the universe has one physically possibility in the future. Compatibilisim is the thesis that we can have free will in a deterministic world. This philosophical question is still not unsolved, but in this essay I will argue that a freedom of choice cannot be had by an agent…

Libertarianism is the view that we are free, and believe in the idea of freewill suggests that there is an important relationship between freedom and moral responsibility. Freewill means that we should be held morally responsible for the actions that we freely preform. Libertarians hold the view that moral responsibility require freedom, they suggest we have a sense of self-determination and freedom in order to act. Libertarians are also described to be in-compatibilists, as they argue that…

It seems obvious that I have free will because I made the decision to eat a slice of cheesecake at 2am. I could have eaten a brownie instead if I wanted to. Michael Huemer says on page 104, Chapter 10 ‘Free Will and Determinism in the World of Minority Report’, “Having free will is thought to require two things: alternate possibilities and self-control.” Free will is the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one 's own discretion while the universe…

Existentialism “A philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.” –Internet meaning Existentialism is the idea that a man lives due to his free will and individuality. That every human define their own meaning in life. It also tackles what is human existence and that human defines their own meaning of life. This idea believes that there is no God, or any higher…

deterministic universe. One prominent view in the realm of moral responsibility is the libertarian stance. Libertarians believe that moral responsibility is incompatible with determinism because they see humans as necessarily free and morally responsible agents. In his essay “Free Will, Praise, and Blame,” J. J. C. Smart refutes the libertarian theory and puts forth his own framework for understanding the question of moral responsibility. Smart claims the libertarian perspective is unfounded…

The discussion regarding free will and determinism is extensive and ever pressing. David Hume believes that the two (of which he refers to as liberty and necessity respectively) are intrinsically compatible, and that the dispute surrounding the issue is a result of failing to accurately define the terms. Hume proposes that through his interpretations of the two, it will become apparent that the debate about liberty and necessity is merely verbal. While some insist that Hume’s account of liberty…