Determinism quotes

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The ability to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention
Free Will
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For everything that happens, there are condition such that, given those conditions, nothing else could happen
Determinism
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Argues that every event has a cause or many causes, therefore the idea of free will is impossible
Hard determinism
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Argues that although we may be determined by some factors eg.Genes/ Environment, we can still function as free moral agents
Soft determinism
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John Calvin's idea that our destination is chosen for us by God - either eternal life or eternal damnation
Predestination
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The environment is full of factors which exercise control over human beings (determinism)
Skinner
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Man is condemned to free will, because one he steps into the universe, he is fully responsible
Satre
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Praise and blame are confined to voluntary actions
Plato
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You can only be responsible for the actions you take of your own free will
Kant
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Everything is determined
Einstein
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All our actions, intentions and decisions are effects of other equally necessitated events
Ted Honderich
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Man chooses not out of necessity, but freely (Free will)
Aquinas
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When God steps back and allows us to make our own decisions, despite the fact he knows what these decisions are
Epistemic distance
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Everything is planned, connected, limited (determinism)
Voltaire
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For everything that happens, there are condition such that, given those conditions, nothing else could happen

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Argues that every event has a cause or many causes, therefore the idea of free will is impossible

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Argues that although we may be determined by some factors eg.Genes/ Environment, we can still function as free moral agents

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John Calvin's idea that our destination is chosen for us by God - either eternal life or eternal damnation

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