Free market

Extrovert, Introvert, or Extroverted Introvert “You think you’ve got it figured out, huh? You have no idea what life has in store for you.” Will you accept a random message request from a stranger? Most probably not right? But it happened, because if not then you won’t be reading this. Gillian Mamaclay of 4 BS Legal Management here in Ateneo surprised me by accepting my request. This person is also the current president of the Ateneo Student Exchange Council. After accepting my message and…

They met in the wrong place at the wrong time. They met in the right place at the right time. Fate is unexpected and mysterious, meaning no one really knows what to make of it. It just kind of happens. No one has control over fate. It can be in favor of the person, or it can be against them. People say that fate happens for a reason and most likely cannot be changed. Though some say that through specific actions it can be altered. In the movie, Inglourious Basterds, the entire plot is secretly…

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…

Allegiant Novel Essay We’ve all made a choice that changed our lives. Maybe it was choosing one person over another or choosing one path instead of another. We are going to make hundreds of choices in our lives. Some will be small, like choosing what to eat for breakfast or what to order at a restaurant. Others will be big, like choosing who to marry. Sometimes we make good choices that lead to positive things and sometimes we make bad choices that lead to negative things or…

Choices In the short stories “A&P” by John Updike, “Searching for Summer” by Joan Aiken, and “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker the protagoni, are all face drastically different situations: an embarrassment three attractive female shoppers, a post-war world that is void of sunlight, and a rural southern home in which heritage drives the family apart. The characters can be linked together through their response to conflict: they choose to act selflessly rather than selfishly. The selfless acts of…

We as humans, believe that we are responsible for all the choices we make in life. Some might call it free will but many others might say our lives are determined completely by fate. Free will implies that we the people can do whatever we please and that we are free and uncontrolled. Fate is the idea that no matter what a person chooses to do, something in their lives is already inevitably about to happen. In A Prayer for Owen Meany, written by John Irving, the theme of fate is clearly evident.…

according to Sider is that free will and determinism are incompatible. And they are incompatible because of the following arguments: 1. If determinism is true, then everything happens is caused by something happened previously. 2. If everything happens is caused by something happened previously, then we could not have acted freely. 3. If determinism is true, then we could not have acted freely. To understand the argument, we must first know what “determinism” and “free will” are. According to…

wrong, a person that has free will. Murder, rape, slavery, etc. would all be examples of moral evil. God allows moral evil because He gave us free will, the right to choose what we want to do. Moral evil actually reveals God’s mercy and forgiveness. If there was no bad in the world, we would see no good in God. Many people argue that these two evils would disprove the existence of God, but they really show how He exists. There are two arguments for this: the free will argument and the…

For those of us grew up in the United States, we are brought up in a society that teaches us that we possess free will, and from that free will, we are morally responsible as individuals for our actions. However, when it comes to the topic of free will in a philosophical sense, there appears to be more than what we are taught as children. While many believe in the idea of our free will, there are others who believe that individuals are not responsible for their actions. This comes from an idea…

was determined. Free will is the freedom of choice or self-determination that human beings possess; those who believe in free will believe that, given any situation, a person could have done other than what he did. Philosophers have argued that free will is incompatible with…