Hard Determinism
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- Created on: 10-03-16 15:33
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- Hard Determinism
- Incompatbilists
- Deny Free Will
- Free Will is an illusion
- John Locke - Analogy (Sleeping man)
- Free Will is an illusion
- Deny Free Will
- Principle of Causality
- 19th Century Newtonian Physics
- Everything must have a prior cause - a scientific explanation for how it came to be
- Universe is a closed system
- Everything within the universe has a cause. Humans are within the universe therefore them and their actions must also have a cause.
- Therefore if all of our actions have a cause that makes it pre-determined.
- If our actions are pre-determined we have no free will.
- Therefore if all of our actions have a cause that makes it pre-determined.
- Everything within the universe has a cause. Humans are within the universe therefore them and their actions must also have a cause.
- Universe is a closed system
- Everything must have a prior cause - a scientific explanation for how it came to be
- 19th Century Newtonian Physics
- Behaviouralism
- Milgram
- Blind Obedience
- 65%
- Our behaviour is psychologically conditioned from birth. Each response and action by a human is like every other animal is due to instinct.
- 65%
- Blind Obedience
- Pavlov
- Classical conditioning
- Skinner
- Operant conditioning
- Milgram
- Debate split. Internal vs. External causation
- Internal Causation
- Genetics
- Predisposition towards certain behaviours or choices
- Weakness - Do we give too much weight to our genes?
- Weakness - Predisposition doesn't necessarily mean it definitely will happen
- Weakness - Do we give too much weight to our genes?
- Predisposition towards certain behaviours or choices
- Genetics
- External Causation
- Parents, friends influence our beliefs and personality. Our beliefs and personality influence our choices.
- Clarence Darrow
- Leopold and Loeb
- The boys were a product of their upbringing
- Can't be held responsible for their actions
- Weakness - Can't hold criminals responsible. No justice system. No one held accountable for their actions - anarchy
- Can't be held responsible for their actions
- The boys were a product of their upbringing
- Leopold and Loeb
- Clarence Darrow
- Parents, friends influence our beliefs and personality. Our beliefs and personality influence our choices.
- Internal Causation
- Theological Determinism
- Pre-destination
- God predetermines everything, including who he shall save
- Humans have no free will. There's no point in them even trying to reach salvation. Their 'destination' has already been decided
- Humans are naturally sinful. Those that are good are only so because God has decided to save them
- Humans have no free will. There's no point in them even trying to reach salvation. Their 'destination' has already been decided
- God predetermines everything, including who he shall save
- John Calvin and St Augustine of Hippo
- Pre-destination
- Ted Honderich
- All of our choices, decisions, other mental events, and our actions are no more than effects of other equally necessitated events
- Incompatbilists
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