Libertarianism

In the United States the system of government is unique from the rest of the world. For the last one and a half centuries since the death of the Whig party and the rise of the Republican Party has caused the country to be dominated by the two party system making a legitimate third parties all but eliminated from the political process. The limitation of third parties has created the climate for interest groups to thrive. One of the most famous interest group is the Cato Institute. Throughout this…

Conflicts Between Freedom and Determinism According to Ted Sider and Earl Conee, the apparent fact that conflicts with the existence of freedom of the will is that every event has a cause. This apparent fact is also known as determinism. To see why determinism conflicts with free will, the concept of cause and effect must be examined. A cause is an event that makes a later event happen and once that event happens it must take place due to the laws of nature. With the belief that determinism…

The 3rd Reflective Essay Amr Eid Radwan Are we free? - Exploration of Will by Exploiting D’Holbach’s Arguments - P eople always want to believe that they are free. But is this the truth? Are we the ones who determine their fates? Are there any external factors that cause our actions? These questions can be taken philosophically and psychologically, but in this essay, we will focus only on the…

We all engage in leisure activities whether through intrinsic or extrinsic motivation we partake in the activity with some goal or end behind it all. Our perceived notions of something being a freedom of choice or not influences how we view an activity or leisure time. According to Russell (2017) Neulinger’s Paradigm consist of one’s state of mind which can be split up into two category; perceived freedom and perceived constraint. Under perceived freedom are the intrinsic and extrinsic matters…

Will Abrahamson 11/30/17 Phil: 1153 Machines and Free Will Thesis: I believe that machines have free will. The definition of free will I am going to use for this paper comes from Thomas Hobbes. It basically states that; they’re being nothing preventing us from doing what we want to do . In the case of this definition, we are not the cause of free will, there is no obstacle in our way is. This view is called “compatiblism” according to the Stanford Enclyopedia of Philosophy and Hobbes…

Is human behavior determinism or free will? Many would argue that every action that we do is done by our free will and others would say that human behaviors are completely determined by prior events. In my opinion, I believe that that events that we experience have already been determined by factors such as science and experiences that we’ve been through in the past. There are a few reasons why I believe that human behavior cannot be a result of free will. Firstly, some choices just can’t be…

The existence and nonexistence of free will has been debated since ancient times. Ancient Greeks believed in gods that predetermined peoples fate and this has been shown in Greek mythology such as Oedipus, Odyssey etc. Free will can be seen as the ability for someone to act according to their own discretion. Free will is the basis for the debate about moral responsibility. Some people believe that free will exist and as such we have control over our actions and decisions. Therefore, there is a…

The short video provided in the prompt is of a man falling onto train tracks in a relatively crowded subway station as a train approaches quickly. To the surprise of many viewers, only one onlooker has the gumption to jump onto the tracks and attempt to save this man from his seemingly certain death. Luckily, the lone responder is able to pull the man off the tracks just in time to help him get out of harms way. If this bystander had not acted in the way that he did, I highly doubt we would be…

A useful manner of thinking about compatibilisms place in contemporary philosophy is in terms of at least three stages. The first stage involves the classical form defended in the modern era by the empiricists Hobbes and Hume, and reinvigorated in the early part of the twentieth 1\ century. The second stage involves three distinct contributions in the 1960s, contributions that s-· challenged many of the dialectical presuppositions driving classical compatibilism. The third SJ:.Qf-…

Philosophy is a heavy topic with several layers to discuss. One of the layers that will be discussed in this paper is the basis of free will and determinism and the question of their compatibility. I will argue alongside philosopher Peter van Inwagen that determinism and free will are incompatible. Exposition (300) Peter van Inwagen spoke a lot about having theories about a few notions such as free will, determinism, compatibilism and incompatibilism, and more. But what do these things mean?…