free will and determinism
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- Free Will & Determinism
- Hard Determinism
- Human behaviour & actions are determined by external factors
- Humans do not have genuine free will or ethical accountability.
- Supporting views
- Incorporates philosophical determinism
- Psychological determinism
- Theological determinism
- Scientific determinism
- JOHN LOCKE
- BENEDICT SPINOZA
- “In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to will this or that by a cause, which has been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on until infinity."
- We cannot be held morally responsible for our actions if they are causally determined
- Soft Determinism
- Human behaviour & actions are determined by causal events
- Human free will does exist - when defined as the capacity to act according to one's nature
- Which is shaped by external factors such as heredity, society and upbringing..
- DAVID HUME
- Libertarianism
- Humans do have genuine freedom to make a morally undetermined decision.
- Our behaviour may be partially determined by external factors.
- Humans do have genuine freedom to make a morally undetermined decision.
- Philosophers distinguish between two different definitions of freedom.
- Influences views on free will and determinism:
- The liberty of indifference: A genuine freedom to act according to independent choices.
- Wholly determined by eternal constraints
- Heredity
- Background
- Education
- Wholly determined by eternal constraints
- The liberty of spontaneity: The freedom to act according to one's nature,
- The ability to do what one wishes to do.
- What they wish to do is determined by their nature - shaped by external constraints.
- Heredity.
- Background
- Education.
- What they wish to do is determined by their nature - shaped by external constraints.
- The ability to do what one wishes to do.
- Hard Determinism
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