free will and determinsim
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- Created on: 05-05-14 11:05
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- Free Will and Determinism
- Libertarians
- Humans are not free to act and as such are morally responsible for their actions.
- Rejects determinism because it rejects moral responsibility and argues that we have a sense of freedom to act.
- Also called incompatibilists- maintain that free will is incompatible with determinism.
- Don't reject determinism altogether and argue that the innate world is determined but deny that causation applies to human action.
- Make a distinction between your personality and your moral self.
- Personality is determined by causal laws and influences.
- Moral self can counter those tendencies.
- Philosophers
- Hard Determinism
- Humans cannot be morally blameworthy because their actions are determined.
- Everything in the universe has a cause. This includes all human activity.
- If we know all events that lead to an action then we theoretically should be able to predict the action.
- Freedom = an illusion
- Incompatibile with both free will and moral responsibility.
- Poses a real threat for morality.
- What if they couldn't have done anything else?
- Does it make sense to punish people for their crimes?
- What if they couldn't have done anything else?
- Philosophers
- Soft Determinism
- Some human actions are determined but we still have moral responsi-bility
- Determinism is compatible with whatever sort of freedom is necessary for moral responsibility.
- Philosophers
- Determinism
- Freedom doesn't exist…everything that happens is determined.
- There are laws in nature that govern everything.
- Scientific laws determine all actions we make and every choice is based on what is done before.
- Free will = an illusion
- No person responsibility
- Everything has a prior cause.
- No person responsibility
- Free will = an illusion
- Scientific laws determine all actions we make and every choice is based on what is done before.
- Philosophers
- Free Will
- The ability to choose our own option without any limitations.
- The ability to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or divine intervention.
- Predestination
- Libertarians
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