I Feel Free

being human means being free and being able to make your own choices. I personally believe all three of these variables, taken together, describes what makes us human. Essentialists theorize that having a soul is more important than merely having a physical body; they believe that the person resides in the brain, personality,…

Opposing to determinism comes the idea of indeterminism, which is the complete opposite. Indeterminism is the idea that rejects both hard and regular determinism saying that not every event has its sufficient natural causes. This idea leaves room for free will that some actions are due to choices that living beings make. This would mean that people re responsible for their actions and are left to make their own thoughts and decisions. Physicist, Werner Heisenberg, created the Heisenberg…

have all been raised to believe that we are free to make our own choices and create our own lives. We have all been told that we can do anything we want, and achieve anything at our own free will. But can we really? Are we all actually free? There are many views of what freedom is and how we achieve freedom, and I am going to argue that Ayer’s views of being free and not free are in fact correct. When talking about the philosophy of freedom and free will there are two ways the world can be.…

I say this because he kind of avoids the evils by coming up with excuses for as to why they occur still, rather than going against the occurrence. For example one thing he states is, since God is the father of us he has parental rights to allow us to suffer…

is the ability of free will. We have the power to make our own choices and follow the path that we chose. I don’t view God as all-controlling. We have this choice between good and evil because of our knowing of moral evils. Most of our suffering comes from this moral evil because it always has a direct impact on us and others. Also in Reuter’s lecture, he defines “Free Will Defense.” He states, “When God, in the beginning, created humans, he made them subject to their own free choice... no…

Introduction I. In this paper, I will be arguing for the following claim that we, human beings are not predetermined beings, but rather we have free will. It has long been argued that people are not free and do not have free will; that rather than having free will we live in a world that is predetermined. That our choices and actions are reflections of and happen because of a long line of other choices and action that caused the present, and thus we have a fixed future. This is just not the…

question arises around freedom and, more specifically, to what extent is an individual free to make choices that affect the rest of their life. At one extreme, a person could argue that one does not have any freedom whatsoever, and that all the events of life are predestined and would occur regardless of the choices one makes. At the opposite end of the spectrum would be a person who argues that a human being is free to live whatever life they choose without any limitations. Sartre, based on his…

it seems impossible to put to rest the matter of free will. This issue of free will remains because of its connection to moral responsibility. What features constitutes moral responsibility? Do we possess these features? These questions about moral responsibility are interconnected to questions about public policy and justice. Hence the issue of moral responsibility has practical as well as theoretical significance. Moreover, recent works on free will like Richard Taylor’s Freedom and…

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…

of this fighting won’t be short, and only one will stand out victorious. This leaves the question, was this destined to happen? Although William’s Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet illustrates the struggle between free will and fate, it’s still debated in the world today. Although fate and free will is labeled as a debated topic, Shakespeare favors throughout the course of Romeo and Juliet that fate controls the characters. In fact, not only does Shakespeare suggests that this is true, but he also…