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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…

One of the main themes demonstrated in “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” was fate versus free will. In the play, most of the characters end up succumbing to fate, however Shakespeare still conveys how their fate could have been avoided. Fate was demonstrated through omens and prophecies, while free will was shown through the character’s ability to chose their own future. For instance, Caesar had been warned about his death by three different people. Most notably, Calpurnia predicted Caesar’s and…

Oedipus the King, one of the three plays from Sophocles stories, a story full of mysteries and thrillers.. From the passage provided (208-210), Jocasta, questions her own morals and religion with the Gods after she find out about her own husband and son, Oedipus. The importance of Gods and their prophecies play an important role just as wisdom in knowledge in this passage. God’s decide prophecies and prophecies decide the characters fate, whether or not to carry out this fate is partially in the…

Compatibilism as a Solution for the Free Will Problem Are human actions completely free? Freedom can acquire several definitions; according to Bavetta’s study on freedom of choice, for example, liberty can refer to the agent’s freedom of choice, effective freedom, or autonomy (47). The belief of freedom of choice acquires two main perspectives: an incompatible and a compatible view between free will and determinism. The incompatible position states that free will and determinism cannot coexist…

In The Condemned of Altona, there is the internal and external conflict of free will and whether or not it can be controlled by a person. Father, the patriarch, father of three, and an almost too true to be a real businessman, is shown as someone how follows society and loves money and power. Franz, the eldest son, said to be dead, is an ex-soldier who despised the Nazis, enlisted in the Russian army and later the American army, but lives life thinking what he done was right, but later feeling…

of the character’s good intentions. Macbeth, from Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, is, without a doubt, one of the most prevalent tragic heroes throughout all works of literature. Macbeth is a tragic hero as he possesses noble stature, a tragic flaw, free choice, an increased awareness of his downfall, and a punishment that exceeds his crimes, all while producing a catharsis in the audience. Macbeth fits the role of a tragic hero in the fact that he has noble stature. Macbeth begins the story a…

actions determined by the past, or are those choices freely made? Free will has been a debated subject for a very longtime. Many philosophers have tried tackling this issue with no success to finding the existential answer. Free will is defined as the ability to make your own decisions throughout life. The opposing belief is that everything is determined and everything that occurs has a cause behind it, we call this determinism. Free-will and determinism are very different philosophies, despite…

In his work ( Existentialism is Humanism), Sartre, one of the most influential figures in western philosophy emphasis free will and work from every aspect to prove the absolute freedom of decision of a human beings. Perhaps Sartre was influenced by the historical events of his time, or, perhaps he was defending existentialism as a philosophical perspective. But what matters is that in the end, Sartre puts freedom of choice first and last. To demonstrate or to prove per se this freedom of choice…

the individual's will to act upon their own decisions, free from any form of outside control. If one has meaningful and intimate relationships it shows that the individual is not completely independent; it proves that at any point in time they are able to rely and depend on someone else because of the relationship they have. Similarly if one is completely independent they would not need relationships or to depend on anyone at all. In the play, Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller explores the…

around us as free will is a state of mind. Free will is the idea that we have a choice in how we act and it assumes that we are unrestricted in choosing our actions, therefore we stand self-determined. We have the power to act without constraint of necessity or fate of discretion and a person remains in control of their own life. The idea of free will gives humans reason to exist. As if free will does not exist, then we live only as much as a river or a cloud does. Still the principle of free…