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want, with the only consequences being living with your own decisions. Sounds like freedom, right? Surprisingly, it’s not as good as it sounds. The article “Existentialism 101” describes a philosophy in which each person creates their own moral code and are defined by the choices they make. The short story “The Guest” is about a man who gives a prisoner the choice of being free or going to jail. “The Guest” illustrates the philosophy written about in “Existentialism 101” in various ways…

If you could have, then why didn’t you? Free Will is the tittle for chapter 6 in the book. It starts off by giving us a brief example of a very common situation people go through everyday in perhaps more than once a day. Food choice, would you pick the healthiest desert for you, or the appealing chocolate cake? If you picked the cake knowing that it wasn’t good for you, yet you still had the option to pick something else, then why didn’t you? Nagel discusses different explanations of why humans…

letting you know you’re fulfilling your destiny. Although, the last option assumes we all have a destiny to fulfill. Destiny is the belief your life has a certain path to it, no matter what; however, life is really made up of individual choices from free will. Destiny is defined as the predetermined, usually inevitable, course of events (Dictionary.com). Destiny plays a huge role in mythology, religion, and media. Greek heroes and demigod stories often included them fulfilling their destinies,…

brings about the idea of free will again. When God gives human kind free will, it is because he desires true, real love from his creation. That kind of love comes not out of robot-like humans, but people who choose to love him out of their own desire. The necessary evil of this, however, is that some people choose not to love God and act out their evil desires. C.S. Lewis (2002) says, “try to exclude the possibility of suffering which is the order of nature and the existence of free wills…

explain that we still have free will in life. Their belief is if God knows what is going to happen, we cannot change it and therefore do not truly have free will. To solve this, they believe that God doesn’t know what choices we will make, but He will eventually be victorious regardless of our choices. The doctrine of Election believes that God knows and controls all that happens…

significant changes. At the start of every day choices are made that in some manner are a direct influence of one of these people. Wake up, working, its not a destiny, although it may feel that way at times. Somehow, the lines become blurry about free will and destiny. Did you have an…

In four short chapters, Cavanaugh first exposes the misleading claims of the free market, arguing freedom must be ordered towards good ends. Absent otherworld’s telos, only the unreasonable power of one will against another remains. Second, he describes consumerism as a spiritual frame of mind that perpetuates a foolish desire for desire itself. Its logic is not a greedy grasping for possessions, but an empty detachment from, producers, production and the products we consume. Third, despite…

Before you can understand what Jean-Paul Sartre refers to as despair, anguish and abandonment, moreover condemned to be free, you should first understand the meaning of subjectivity. Furthermore, you need to understand that individual feelings (sadness, happiness, etc.) are not the objective in Sartre’s reason. Hence, you seem aware of the concept of existence precedes essence, however you abandon the notion of taking responsibilities of your choices by choosing ignorance; in turn, you…

a great deal of beliefs on free will. These beliefs had changed over the years of being a philosopher and psychologist as well as life events that formed his beliefs. While living at home after receiving his Doctor of Medicine degree he battled ill health along with severe depression. According to William James, the depression he was experiencing was due to “crisis of meaning” that were brought by his studies. At this time in his life he believed that the belief in free will and God were just…

it seems impossible to put to rest the matter of free will. This issue of free will remains because of its connection to moral responsibility. What features constitutes moral responsibility? Do we possess these features? These questions about moral responsibility are interconnected to questions about public policy and justice. Hence the issue of moral responsibility has practical as well as theoretical significance. Moreover, recent works on free will like Richard Taylor’s Freedom and…