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and “On Free Choice of the Will” by Augustine we will find answers and examples to these questions. It is everyone’s purpose in life to live a happy life or a life that leads to happiness, but not all of us as humans can achieve this happiness. Through human action we can understand what needs to be done to achieve happiness. First we need to understand why anyone does anything at all.…

can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.” Stating that free humans have free will but have no control over how we feel. Since humans were first introduced to the earth, many great minds have pondered the question of free will and often come to wildly different conclusions. There are determinists, who believe that all event are influenced by factors external to free will. There are compatibilists, who believe that free will and determinism are compatible ideas and that one can…

freedom, he was identifying the freedom that allows people to create their own identity. This is not only a wonderful freedom to have, but it is also one that can lead us to despair and anguish. Sartre believed that man is absolutely and totally free, and that with this freedom comes an…

Is free-will possible? The concept of free will has formed the basis of Judeo-Christian morality and its successor, our present modern secular morality. It refers to the “ability of a rational agent to choose a course of action among various alternatives” (O 'Connor). The rational agent can then be held morally responsible for his choice and its consequences. This key idea pervades our entire ethical and legal system allowing us to reward, punish and judge persons holding them responsible for…

Ambition is something everyone has. Your ambitions strives and makes you achieve your goals. However, too much ambition can corrupt and destroy a person. Ambition is like a drug, small amounts can make you feel great, but too much can kill you. Shakespeare clearly portrays the negative effects of too much ambition throughout his play The Tragedy of Macbeth. He uses the main character, Macbeth, to show us how excessive amounts of ambition can lead someone to their doom. In the beginning of…

Duality exists across many concepts: dark and light, bad and good, burden and duty, war and peace. However, one of the most valuable is that of the beacon and the gibbet: the notion of carving our own futures for the sake of destiny. This idea is as old as time itself. In Greek mythology, the tale of Icarus is depicted as one of overestimation and pride. As the story goes, Icarus and his father flee imprisonment from the island of Crete using wings built of feathers and wax. His father warns him…

Henry Kravis once said,”If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing. Morals are the principles on which one's judgments of right and wrong are based. The morality of a person defines what a person’s decisions will be, or could this be influenced by other things. To Kill a Mockingbird is a book written by Harper Lee about racism and justice during the Great…

Do you believe that the choices you make now have no effect on what happens to you or what becomes of you in the future? According to Sartre, his theory of what makes a person is based on one’s actions, not because of who they are. By living without an idea that a consequence, for example religious views, will follow after every choice you make, then you are truly living freely. It’s the choices that are made that make us who we are; who we become. I think likewise that human beings, based on…

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…

Heraclitus and Parmenides both attempt to answer a seemingly simple but complex question about change: Is change real? Their answers lie in opposing sides of the discussion since Heraclitus believes change to be possible, while Parmenides denies the concept of change. Heraclitus believes that all things flow and are part of cycles in which they change, becoming what they are not. He also believes in a circular flow of change, explaining that some processes yield the same result with which it…