Libertarianism

The American Dream: Libertarianism and America’s Idiosyncratic Mindset Throughout the course of U.S. history, the principle belief of one’s right to their own life and liberty has been heavily ingrained into the consciousness and values of America’s population and government. It is a sentiment explicitly noted in the nation's founding documents, and a core aspect of infrastructure to the rights American’s feel entitled to. With this in mind, it is no coincidence that many of the proponents of…

“ It is commonly assumed that men are capable of acting freely, in the sense that is required to make them morally responsible, and that human behaviour is entirely goverened by casual laws; and it is the apparent conflict between these two assumptions that gives rise to the problem of the freedom of the will” The debate over free will and whether we can control of our destiny has been at the heart of philosophical debate for centuries. Philosopher such as Aristotle, Hume, William James, Ted…

This paper is aimed at reviewing two cultural terms and two collective action terms and relating them with American and French politics. The two cultural terms that I will be looking at are egalitarianism and libertarianism while the two collective action terms that I will be looking at are externalities and conformity cost. To start with, egalitarianism is defined as the ideology that all humans are equal and the social credo to eradicate any inequalities between humans. In French politics,…

In the free will vs. determinism debate, hard determinism seems to be a dominant belief. Hard determinism is the belief that free will and determinism are incompatible ideas, and that it is not possible to truly believe in both without being logically inconsistent. Under hard determinism, there is a view called hard incompatibilism which Smilansky subscribes to. Hard incompatibilism is the belief that determinism is incompatible with both human freedom and moral responsibility. Saul Smilansky…

garbs. In this paper I will be discussing the background, two theories and how they can be applied, and why the banning of religious clothing should be repealed. The two theories that I am going to apply to this real life example will be both libertarianism and utilitarianism. Over the past two decades the French have made some very controversial decisions in regards to their banning of religious garbs. In 2004,…

Libertarianism being free from anything except our free will is something that is huge to me. There are many pros and cons to this thought. Of course some people are against this philosophic thought. Free will should be brought to everyone, but in some ways it is not always something that is real. Free will is said to be you’re able to make your own decision, which I believe we do everyday, but I do believe god has a path for us which allows us to make the decisions we do. Everyday we are faced…

People may go on and have their counter analyses on my views of libertarianism. A question such as “ No one may have told you to eat, but the fact that you were hungry, was that a choice or did you just get hungry?” I would have to agree with the fact that it does contradict that I am acting on my free will. I wasn’t hungry by choice; it is something within me that drives me to be hungry without much of an actual choice. Being or not being hungry is out of my control no matter what I appeal to…

The idea of free will as an illusion has become a hot topic in neuroscience, still even nearly twenty years after this article was penned, due to the controversy it attracts regarding morals and self-determination. Tom Wolfe argues, in a rather snarky tone consistently seen throughout the article, that the concept of a self is dead—much like Nietzsche’s preceding declaration that God is dead. However, the concept of self is not yet dead in neuroscience like Wolfe predicted. Rather, more…

Free will is the known as the capability to decide between different potential courses of action and is a highly questioned topic in the philosophical world. Free will, also closely accompanied to the views of moral responsibility, has some philosophers reason that only actions which are free willed are justified to accept the blame of the action while other philosophers oppose this view. Baron d’Holbach views free will under the idea of Determinism, which entails that only one sequence of…

Free Will and Determinism have been discussed by philosophers for many years. Free will is associated with moral responsibility, and alternative actions that “could have” been taken over the one chosen. Determinism is the opposite view, and is associated with universal causation, and a lack of free will. Determinists believe that a person’s actions are inevitable, they are dictated by a person’s experiences, they believe nurture, nature, and even a person’s genes determine their future actions.…