Free indirect speech

How do you think of free? Do you think to be free is only means to get out of one’s control and keep yourself free or is to use your hands to be respect and enhance the freedom of others? Before I finish reading the book “Looking for Alibrandi”, I may believe that get out of one’s control is the meaning of to be free. However, when I finish reading the book, I started wondering, living in a way of respects and enhances the freedom of others is the truly meaning of “to be free”. Therefore, I…

Suppose there was a world in which no one had a moral compass. There would be nothing stopping someone from doing anything, as nothing would be seen as “wrong” or “right.” It would be a real life Lord of the Flies, with savagery and disorder being commonplace. But what is a moral compass anyway? The dictionary definition defines it as “a person's ability to judge what is right and wrong and act accordingly,” but is there more to it than that? The use of moral compass can be seen almost anywhere,…

means to good” (p. 122), my paper will solely focus on Mackie’s response to the fallacious solution that “evil is due to human free will” (p. 123), which begins “first I must query” on p. 124. This paper will formally extract, justify, critically evaluate, and engage with Mackie’s argument that existence of evil due to free will is erroneous. Mackie describes the free will…

Independent. What does it mean to be independent? Does independence mean the same thing as being free? Everyone experiences independence in different ways. Some experience independence in little tasks, such as a young child learning to zip their own coat on a cold winter day. Others experience independence as being on their own, living in a home with no higher authority. There are many different viewpoints on what it really means to be independent and when true independence is ultimately reached…

The Free Will Problem Hard Determinism is the best possible answer to the free will problem. It is the theory that past event’s directly cause future events, therefore, the future is casually determined. While this may seem like a daunting thought, it isn’t. Some will argue that Hard Determinism is not the best true, Libertarians are a good example of these kinds of people. They believe that we are able to directly influence events that happen, and how they happen, directly choosing our future.…

In “Of the System of Man’s Free Agency” D’Holbach explains his argument that human action is determined by the laws of nature. He proposes that humans are part of the natural world and therefore governed by necessary laws, so they have no free will. On this essay I will argue that D’Holbach’s argument on motive is not a good one; I will explain the argument, present why do I think the argument fails and consider ways to defend the argument from my own attack. D’Holbach’s Argument D’Holbach…

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…

everything happens because something causes it to happen. If someone’s actions are causally determined, could we say he or she had the free will to choose them? As a proponent of soft determinism, Hume would answer yes. For Hume, the seeming incompatibility of determinism and free will is merely a…

The reality of “stable natural laws” and the human environment such laws facilitate is that they are conducive to free-willed creatures making real moral choices (Morris 274). People find themselves challenged daily to make decisions that impact their value system. Consequently, individuals have the opportunity to grow and learn from the choices and mistakes they make…

“'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…