Free will

whether we have free will or not. Two opposing titles, “Design” a modern piece of poetry, a petrarchan sonnet and the other “Outliers” a modern day expository text. The piece “Design” by Robert Frost demonstrates how Fate is predetermined by nature through the relationship between a spider and a moth utilizing metaphors imagery and comparison. On the contrary the expository text, “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell connotes through logos, and causality.…

The topic that I found to be the most interesting was hard determinism. Similar to libertarianism, hard determinism states that casual determinism and free will are incompatible. According to determinism, there is no such thing as free will. It states that a person’s actions are the effects of their will. A person’s will comes from their desires, motives, and emotions. And that a person’s desires, motives, and emotions are the effects of their genes, upbringing, and experiences. This chain of…

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…

The fourth view is Calvinism, supported by Paul Helm, and it is the only view out of all four that is a compatibilist view. Compatibilists believe humans have free will and that everything is determined by God. Helm says that “the issue, as classically stated, is whether divine omniscience, as far as it is concerned with the future, is logically consistent with human freedom.”(Helm 161) If this is the case, then…

of being free or going to jail. “The Guest” illustrates the philosophy written about in “Existentialism 101” in various ways throughout the story. In “The Guest”, Daru can be seen as an existentialist. He gives the Arab the option of making his own choice of how he should deal with the crime he has committed. Daru says to the Arab prisoner, after telling him both the directions to the city where he will be arrested for his crimes, and directions to the pasturelands where he can be free, “No, be…

Freedom, in logic, includes unrestrained choice as appeared differently in relation to determinism. In legislative issues, freedom comprises of the social and political opportunities to which all group individuals are entitled. In religious philosophy, freedom will be opportunity from the impacts of, "wrongdoing, profound bondage, common ties." For the most part, freedom is unmistakably separated from opportunity in that flexibility is principally, if not solely, the capacity to do as one…

determinism take away an individual’s free will. Determinism got also be looked at as for every action one take there is a reaction that follow. I strongly disagree with the in compatibilism idea of had determinism. Therefore I am challenging the statement made earlier that “if determinism is true then free will does not exist” because it is an invalid statement that contradict itself. For the purpose of this argument we will use the universal definition of the word “Free Will”…

essentially that everyone has a choice, and every act is a free act. When people believe they have 'no choice' but to do something, they are being deceptive towards themselves. To begin with, as humans we are born into existence…

Existentialism, by definition, is a philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of free will. Simply stated, existentialism has a special regard to an individualist approach and the sense of free will. This is very different from nihilism which is defined as the rejection of all religious beliefs and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless. There are…

on the conception of freedom that goes contradictory to that of Mill. In this sense, he suggests that society must undergo a transformation or transition from the natural state to the civil state society, and that this society may be considered both free and subject to some legitimate form of political authority. Rousseau believes that this political authority is not found in the natural state, which he considers limited only by the power of natural superiority or the private interests of…