Philosophy- Core- Free Will vs. Determinism
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- Created on: 30-03-13 16:18
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- Free Will vs. Determinism vs. Fate
- Fate
- Something/one has decided that your life will go in a particular way and its impossible for you to take a different course
- Determinism
- A science related theory that every action is the inevitable consequence of laws and cause and effect
- Hard Determinism
- future is entirely set and its impossible to act in a different way.
- people cannot be blamed or punished for their actions
- Soft Determinism
- we cannot be blamed for actions caused by an external force, but we can take responsibility for those which are a result of internal causes
- Behaviourism
- Determinism
- A science related theory that every action is the inevitable consequence of laws and cause and effect
- Hard Determinism
- future is entirely set and its impossible to act in a different way.
- people cannot be blamed or punished for their actions
- Soft Determinism
- we cannot be blamed for actions caused by an external force, but we can take responsibility for those which are a result of internal causes
- Explains behaviour in humans in term of stimulus-response conditioning
- Pavlov dog experiement can be used as evidence
- The environment/ nature determines our behaviour
- Watson
- claimed given the right environment you could control the subsequent path in a babies life
- Skinner
- Any form of behaviour could be brought about by training using positive or negetive methods, e.g. punishment and rewards.
- All human behaviour can be explained by conditioning
- Casual method of behaviour- causes and prior conditions make things happen and explain the action
- Explains behaviour in humans in term of stimulus-response conditioning
- Pavlov dog experiement can be used as evidence
- Explains behaviour in humans in term of stimulus-response conditioning
- Watson
- Determinism
- Free will
- Existentialism
- Free will
- Human experience is unique and isolated
- we have a metaphysical freedom- beyond a non-physical freedom
- freedom to choose
- there are limits to a physical freedom, e.g. teleportation
- Sarte
- Animals are just part of a chain of cause and effect, humans however havw the ability to initiate events
- We have not fundamental nature that makes our behaviour predicatable, thus we are free
- For humans existence precedes essence- we are self-conscious and can always choose how we act
- we have the ability to imagine ourselves different. we can annihilate our desires or go against them if we wish
- There are no absolute values and we are always free to reject any
- 'Man is condemed to be free'
- We have no nature, afterlife or divine being to explain our nature so we are free to have an take responsibility for our own actions
- Individualistic View- we adopt the expectations of society and hence are living an inauthentic life
- others take our freedom as we take it from them. living in society we adopt other values and lose sight of our own- living in bad faith
- Animals are just part of a chain of cause and effect, humans however havw the ability to initiate events
- Facticity
- agrees there are aspects of a human which you have no choice over- your facticity- e.g. you cannot fly
- there are things you cannot change but you are still free to act and do as you want
- you can reject the expecations of society if you wish
- you always have a choice in life and to deny that is to deny your basic freedom
- Bad faith and Inathenticity
- Facticity
- agrees there are aspects of a human which you have no choice over- your facticity- e.g. you cannot fly
- there are things you cannot change but you are still free to act and do as you want
- you can reject the expecations of society if you wish
- you always have a choice in life and to deny that is to deny your basic freedom
- the future is always a matter of choice
- Being authentic means being in charge of your own life, choices and the outcome of these
- Bad faith means denying your freedom or your facticity- e.g. a homosexual man pretending he isn't
- Facticity
- Fate
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