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1. Are people determined or do we have free will? While some stories and philosophers may believe that one’s destiny is something that is already decided and set out for them, I personally disagree. For me, when looking at history, sometimes it can seem like one’s fate is already set based on the actions in the past. An example of this would be A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. The main character believes his life is already set and dictated by what has happened in the past to African…

It is mine and every American citizen’s right to speak freely without repercussions to limit our ability to express ourselves. Limiting our rights to free speech would require amending the First Amendment, and if government cannot do so, then they cannot look for ways to punish people because of what they say. Is it okay for me to punch a man in his face for calling me stupid? Then why is it okay to…

Free will is thought of as being the ability to do whatever one wishes. Since free will seems to be one of the necessities for a sense of a moral responsibility many theories regarding it has been formed. One of those views is the compatibilists way of considering how free will functions. Compatibly usually expresses a truth of statements, so that two statements are compatible if they could both be true. Since compatible means co-possible, events are incompatible if they could not occur together…

Free will is someone 's ability to do whatever and make choices that change their future in the way they want. The choices we make change our lives and leads us down our own future. In Macbeth and paradise lost, you can see two examples of how free will; you can also see how the powered choice causes two characters to face isolation in their community. In both stories, they are only isolated by their own actions, no one made them follow that path. They alone were responsible for their down fall.…

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…

modern science; however, even in this range can be generalized in three simplified schools of thought. One may argue that every move in a person’s life is predestined in some divine way, proceeded by the concept of free will with divine consequences, and ending with the idea of complete free will without any exterior factors. In generalizing these categories of fate, some specific arguments and sub-categories may be underrepresented, but in doing so comparisons across media and time can be done…

“'Time management' is really a misnomer; the challenge is not to manage time, but manage ourselves. The key is not to prioritize what is on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities,” philosophized Stephen Covey. Time management is all about delegation. One of the most difficult things I have ever undergone thus far in my twenty-one years of life is to efficiently find a healthy balance among my Penn Foster studies along with my job, family and other activities and responsibilities. I am a…

(1.67)). Thus, one may ask " how can Satan's "woes" be worsened still more if he has been damned to eternal suffering? Perhaps, although this may be suppositious, we may call Satan's punishment one "from without," that is, God does not damn Satans's free will (he may still plot, still be hypocritical (under God's "permissive will," and indulge in other evil things). While Satan certainly can never reascend into Heaven, his Hell is not exactly bounded, he may still plummet lower into Hell, he may…

prediction of a future serves as a warning against the impending danger of losing individuality as a result of seeking contentment through passivity. The path to surrendering autonomy for the sake of comfort and stability begins with the elimination of free choice. In the society of Brave New World, this eradication starts at birth, with the preordained caste system that every member of the community assimilates to. To encourage conformity…

Old Mali, fate and destiny are recurring themes. It is a frequent topic of discussion within the text. The griot telling the epic from oral tradition gives a clear opinion about man’s ability to intervene fate. Fate cannot be changed. A person has free will and their choices define them, yet any actions taken to alter their destiny is in vain. This theme appears, slightly differently, in The Epic of Gilgamesh as well. In the lives of Sundiata and Gilgamesh, a higher being sets a specific,…