Free-radical theory

gonna be peerin’ over my shoulder…Like a parole officer!” (Luke Cage #3) in response to Burstein. His choice of language here points to his feelings toward libertarianism. To him, freedom is the ability to exercise free will over his body, and without such ability he is not technically “free”, but rather heeding to the decisions of others, in particular Burstein. Because Cage would be working under Burstein’s morals and decisions, he would lose ownership of himself. The language in this panel…

The issue of Free will and Determinism arise from the terms themselves. Free will can be defined as: “agents that are strongly, and naturally, inclined to believe that what they do, it is of their own free will” (our actions have the motives that we (the agent) determined and want). Determinism, on the other hand, means to outlook every event, including choice and action as determined (i.e. completely caused or inevitable). However, determined means in this statement “causally determined”…

Control is out of this world. “Compatibilism is the thesis that we are both determined and yet at the same time have the sort of freedom necessary to be morally responsible for our actions” (McKenna). Everybody has their own viewpoints on free will and hard determinism. It is often said that it can only be one or the other. The economy, the laws, and the people are only doing what is set in stone for them to be doing, or making their own choices in life. Well, I believe it’s both. Compatibilism…

Philosophy can be seen like a religion. There are many beliefs and theories that people hold true. However, there is no specific evidence that one theory is more likely than the others. When it comes to the dilemma of responsibility, it is up to the individual thinker to decide what they hold righteous. By incorporating ideas from hard determinism, libertarianism, and compatibilism it can be established that all of these are applicable in certain situations. However, I believe we must hold…

Are we free? On one hand most of us have the clear mindset that we are, we feel and act free, we feel like we make all sorts of decisions, good or bad that lead to both beliefs (that we are and that we’re not free) but it has yet to be proven that somebody can just decide to change his or her beliefs in any which way. But, consider knocking someone out, or, for another example, I donate wheat to a third world country on a whim, just because I feel like it. This view that humans are more than…

to do with the future. When it comes to philosophy the future is already set and no one knows what will happen until the time comes and that is called hard determinism. Hard determinism is a theory that human behavior and actions are determined by external factors, and therefore humans do not have genuine free will or ethical accountability. Hard determinism contains two powerful objections, but is capable of being on it’s own. Hard determinism argues that every event results from prior causes…

Does free will exist? As humans came to enlightenment, the concept of free will concerned many philosophers’ thoughts, especially in philosophy of religion. Many came to question, whether humans have free will or they just do what needs to be done based on God’s plan. Therefore, many philosophers assume that the meaning of free will is the ability to choose to do something with one’s desire or to be free to choose. Moreover, people have different minds and different views about the idea of free…

parole is the sentence he should receive, instead of death penalty. Even though I believe that John McCluskey is not responsible for committing the murder, I do believe that he should receive a life sentence without parole based on the deterrence theory that punishing criminals is justified for the reason that it deters future crime. And, my reason is based on the grounds that the right to punish on the right to self-defense. One might argue that there seems to be a conflict between my belief…

The Importance of Sentiment in Morality In this paper, I will argue that David Hume’s argument on morality is more persuasive than Thomas Hobbes’ argument due to the nature of sentiment that everyone carries. One of the key problems of Hobbes’ argument is that it assumes that everyone is unitary. Hobbes explained the State of Nature and the way people would react to it in a way where all the actors involved would make the obvious--rational--choice, however, this is not the case. Not all…

does serve to strengthen his position. He points out that free will and predictability are compatible with an example of expecting an honourable man to act honourably and how common sense would still dictate the man is choosing to act with honour. The idea of a separation between types of freedoms of choice is a recurring theme in the three schools of thought all of which generally accept the kind of freedom which Stace refers to as free will but is generally called the freedom of…