free will and determinsm
- Created by: Grace
- Created on: 08-04-14 09:30
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- Free Will and Determinism
- Free Will
- having the ability to choose
- Libertarianism
- we are completely free and nothing is determined in any way
- cause and effect is irrelevant
- moral actions are the results of individual character and values being applied to ethical concerns
- Hume
- "By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will; that is, if we choose to remain at rest, we may; if we choose to move along, we may
- no compulsion to act so every choice is free
- we are therefore responsible for these acts
- Determinism
- laws that exist outside of our control that cause things to happen
- Hard Determinsm
- all choices are determined by other events/actions prior to the choice
- Honderich
- "all our choices, decisions, intentions,other mental events and our actions are no more than effects of other equally necessitated events"
- humans make a choice believing it was made with free will but every event has led up to this apparent free choice so it has already been determined
- v strict and rigid in beliefs
- we cannot be morally responsible as we were not free to act any differntly
- Hospers
- there is always something in us that urges us to make a choice that we believe was the result of free will.
- Soft Determinism
- tries to combine hard determinism and libertarianism
- freedom to act is doing what you want to do without any external interference or coercian
- our own values, desires, prior choices can determine how we will act in certain situations
- BUT these causes of our actions are so complex and numerous they are almost completely random
- our own values, desires, prior choices can determine how we will act in certain situations
- Makes us responsible for our actions
- Free Will
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