How Free are Human choices and actions
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- How free are human actions and choices?
- Free Choices
- giving into temptation or resisting temptation suggests freedom
- Experinece suggests we make choices
- ''in the act of deciding whether to put forth or withhold the moral effort required to resist temptation and rise to duty, is to be found act which is free.'' C. A. Campbell
- ''in the act of deciding whether to put forth or withhold the moral effort required to resist temptation and rise to duty, is to be found act which is free.'' C. A. Campbell
- Experinece suggests we make choices
- legal or divine punishment suggest freedom
- ''Ought implies can'' Kant, any punishment makes sense if we have freedom
- Experinece suggests we make choices
- not being able to act in accord with our desire suggests alternative choice
- e.g desire to start a relationship with someone but the other person might not feel the same way
- Freedom provides an answer to the problem of evil and suffering
- Adam and Eve suffered because of their free choice
- giving into temptation or resisting temptation suggests freedom
- No Free Choices
- Freedom and Omniscience paradox
- All actions must be determined if they can be known
- Not being able to act in accord with our desire suggest, no free choice.
- Hume thought freedom is ''a power of acting or not acting according to the determination of the will''
- Legal or divine punishment doesn't imply freedom
- if determinism is correct then it's inhumane to punish people
- Rationalist Spinoza would disregard experience as a means for defending freedom
- 'men think themselves on the account of this alone, that they are conscious of their actions and ignorant of the causes of them'
- Cause for resisting temptation is that, one was born in a Buddhist family
- Buddhism teaches elimination of desire leads to Nirvana
- Cause for resisting temptation is that, one was born in a Buddhist family
- 'men think themselves on the account of this alone, that they are conscious of their actions and ignorant of the causes of them'
- Cause for resisting temptation is that, one was born in a Buddhist family
- Buddhism teaches elimination of desire leads to Nirvana
- Freedom and Omniscience paradox
- Free Choices
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