Free writing

memories belong to one person? The truths behind why memory exists and how feelings and choice play a role in a human’s life are explained through the remarkable novel entitled The Giver. The main character Jonas discovers the importance and roles of free choice, memories, and feelings. In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, the learning of memories leads Jonas to create new found feelings of love and isolation with the freedom to choose right and wrong, indifference to the straightforward,…

Throughout their writing, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and J.S. Mill hold differing views on freedom. At the same time, each highlights different impediments to freedom. In this paper, I argue that the obstacles to freedom that they see leads to different ideas of freedom and subsequently divergent ideas concerning the role of government and society in cultivating these freedoms. Hobbes holds to freedom as the right to the simple preservation of one’s life, while Locke extends this idea to include…

impossible to change. However, Antigone interpreted this differently. Antigone emphasized the tenaion between free will and fate, showing how destiny was influenced by people's choices and circumstances. The way that characters' fates play out in Antigone affected how modern literature and media is written. We can see this by examining Kreon's and Antigone's fates, as well as modern writing that pertains to fate in Antigone. In Antigone, fate is malleable. On line 104, Antigone says that Ismene…

INTRODUCTION Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. - Noam Chomsky Chomsky’s quote designates language, but it can also be redirected towards the use of Stylistic Devices, otherwise known as figurative language. These “devices”, have some fixed rules or one may say formulae by the means…

as compelled to seek out materials the challenge, frustrate, or upset us. In the harm principle, Mill assumes that we regularly interact with offensive opinions, people, and actions. He is right to assume this for the time during which he was writing wherein communication was less controlled as most of it was done face-to-face or by newspaper, for example. In the case of the newspaper, if one read to find a story of particular interest, one could not filter out the rest. If there was an…

Jawaharlal Nehru once said, “Life is like a game of cards. The hand you're dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.” In order to determine if something is real or not, you must be able to understand what it is. When the concept of fate floats around in the minds of people who allow it to, the question of whether Fate is real or not comes to play. Fate is an idea that is sometimes is very hard to grasp simply because the meaning of fate has so many meanings. In general, everyone…

God is not responsible for it. Descartes explains why human being make mistakes as he says “I note that these errors depend on the simultaneous concurrence of two causes: the faculty of knowing that is for me and the faculty of choosing, that is, the free choice of the will, in other words, simultaneous on the intellect and will.”(6) He clarifies the intellect as the faculty of knowing which is limited in the way of thinking and understanding, and the will as the faculty of choosing which is…

capacity for freewill. If he had not done so, a person would no longer carry his or her identity as a person. In response to the argument of God creating a free person who would always make the right decision, Hick argues that the contradiction in itself does not make sense despite the apparent logic. In order for something to be free it must be free of any causation by an outside source. There cannot be any choice out of reach or not allowed. There cannot be a guarantee that anything will…

Kushner wrote a book on his view of the theodicy by using the book of job, personal experience, and other stories. Kushner begins his book with the question “Why do bad things happen to good people?” For many years this question have been circulating trying to find an answer for it just seems impossible. Kushner also wrote about people believing that God is all good and all powerful even though he allows chaotic things to happen not only to ones who deserve it but also to the people that are…

What is the nature of freedom? Or a better question should be, what is free will and do we have it? The definition of free will is not a simple answer. Free will tries to account for our introspective belief that we have control of our actions and as a result, our own destiny. Nothing in our lives is predetermined and every cause has an effect. Human actions are caused, but we can consider actions free if they are the result of internal motivations rather than external events, a belief known as…