Libertarianism

Roderick T Long’s article entitled, “Corporations versus the Market; or, Whip Conflation Now” explores the link between the free market and the rise of big business and corporations. Specifically, Long questions the motives of libertarian free market advocates of simultaneously legitimizing plutocratic corporations. He begins by pointing out that a completely free market and big business are at odds, utilizing many examples of government intervention propping up corporations and their businesses…

Radical Libertarianism explains that pure chance, irreducible randomness, or quantum indeterminacy that this is the causes of our thoughts and actions that gives us this model of what we call free will. This is not determined by one 's character and values, one 's feelings…

Discuss. Causation and freedom is an essential part of ethics as it considers whether or not one should be held morally accountable for their actions. The three philosophical approaches to the issue of free will and determinism are hard determinism, libertarianism and soft determinism which each take different approaches to decide whether or not our actions are caused or whether we are able to act upon our own free will. We assume that we are free when we make decisions in our everyday lives.…

Is free will compatible with determinism? That’s the most philosophical question asked. Free will is the power or ability to make a choice for which one can be held responsible for. Determinism is the thesis that at any time the universe has one physically possibility in the future. Compatibilisim is the thesis that we can have free will in a deterministic world. This philosophical question is still not unsolved, but in this essay I will argue that a freedom of choice cannot be had by an agent…

In Greg Miller’s Wired article “Did Brain Scans Just Save a Convicted Murderer From the Death Penalty?”, John McCluskey, a prisoner escaped from an Arizona prison, carjacked a retired couple, shot them inside the camping trailer they were towing behind their truck and set the trailer on fire with their bodies still inside. Despite his reprehensible act of crime, John McCluskey’s lawyers successfully convinced the jury that the convict has several brain defects and that his action was a result…

Hard determinism is the theory that everything that has happened in the world has happened because it was meant to be that way. So everything that happens in the world is already predetermined. If I asked my son to pick what color shirt, he wanted to wear and he picked green and not blue Hard determinism says that he wasn’t actually free to choose because that choice had already been made beforehand. The freewill we think we have is all just an illusion, like the example given by John Locke if a…

supports the suggestion that all humanly choices made within one’s self are still considered “free”. Lastly, Indeterminism and libertarianism are the final free will position. Indeterminism, is the view that some events including human actions are not determined by previous actions. Putting people in complete responsibility for the actions they commit. Lastly, libertarianism is the view that all humans are capable of making their own choices not basing them off previous events. Libertarians…

Incompatibilism and compatibilism are theories about the relationship between determinism and free will. Compatibilism is the idea that free will and determinism can coexist. Incompatibilists deny this by way of two theories; the denial of determinism (libertarianism) and the denial of free will. Determinism is the theory that every event was determined by a previous existing cause. Given the laws of nature and the initial state of the universe, there is only one possible course of history;…

which means that he believes free will and determinism are like-minded and indeed determinism is required for moral responsibility, and places his arguments to show that this is to be true. He believes that there are two main reasons as to why libertarianism is not good and that is that one it’s conflict with modern biology and psychology but does not really go into detail about this part of his argument and the other part is that it is simply not a good argument. Which is something that he…

While Libertarianism claims humans are capable of entirely free actions several arguments have been in favor of this theory like the argument from experience, the argument that the universe is not a deterministic system, the argument that we cannot predict our own…