2006-07-24 06:25:47 · 18 answers · asked by Valerie P 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It depends on your point of view. If you are dealing with the ultimate question as to weather or not our decisions are our own, than no, we are not free. There is a clear causal chain seen such that our reaction to any given stimuli is accounted for via that stimuli.
If you are asking if conventionally are we free, than we are ultimately free to interpret and act in any given situation.
This being said, I don;t think we can live our life in a world of ultimates because we are not equipped to do so. So, we must live and base decisions based on the conventional world. Therefor we must act as if we are free even if we are ultimately not.
2006-07-24 08:23:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless your talking about breathing, blinking, having control over other bodily functions, etc. I'd safely say 95% of out actions are free will. That's what seperates us from the animals. We have problem solving skills and reason. We have consequences for our actions weather good or bad, and how much or little we like those consequences depends upon if we repeat those chosen actions. We choose how we react to different circumstances. We choose what we eat, how to dress, if to dress, everything. And God bless this country that we have the freedoms to express ourselves and dress how we want with little or no recourse.
2006-07-24 06:37:00 · answer #2 · answered by frigidx 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every act you make is based on free will. Nobody can ever make you do anything. Thats why there are concequenses to all actions. You always have a choice you sometimes you just make the ones ppl tell you to because your scared or think you should. But you always have the choise.
2006-07-24 06:29:53 · answer #3 · answered by siajlence 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 90%
2006-07-24 06:28:52 · answer #4 · answered by The_Devil_911 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 90%
2006-07-24 06:27:38 · answer #5 · answered by PeachyFixation 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you are possessed, ALL of your actions constitute free will. Remember, letting others make the choices that run your life started out as your choice.
2006-07-24 06:30:31 · answer #6 · answered by Susan O 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to say all but that isn't true. We are acted on by the (free) wills of others, both consciously and unconsciously. The more that comes from your own thought process, I believe, the more you have to offer the world; the less, the less.
2006-07-24 06:45:17 · answer #7 · answered by Alobar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of your actions are free will, even with an omnipresent, omniscient God.
He chooses not to force you to do anything. He simply knows which choices you will choose to make.
2006-07-24 06:30:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say 99% is free will. You don't have to do anything is you don't want. The only thing not from free will is dying from doing nothing at all.
2006-07-24 06:29:49 · answer #9 · answered by Michelle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in an omnicient, omnipotent God who created the universe, then we have no free will. Free will would be an impossibility.
2006-07-24 06:28:41 · answer #10 · answered by Rwebgirl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋