2006-09-01 07:57:19 · 6 answers · asked by Phil M 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Nope there's no such thing as free will, everything's already fated to happen. We do however have the free will to totally freak out over the consequences of that already mentioned fate!!!!
2006-09-03 07:36:37 · answer #1 · answered by Geist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To continue with what's been said... This is what I remember reading: it's all in the mix. If some of our decisions didn't lead us to mishaps, freedom would be less interesting.
This is why we have freedom:
-We have no nature, only history.
-We have desires, but no clear way to satisfy them.
-We keep trying to reach our destiny, with varying results.
Curious enough, freedom is linked to fatility, the fatality of choosing wrong. Freedom is only the freedom to make mistakes, but also to get it right.
Inferior animals don't have freedom because their decisions have no consequences in their lifes, I mean, their life is not in question with every decision they make, only their survival.
That almost sounds like saying there is no freedom, but what happends is that behind every concept relative to humans, and even everything else, what you find is "difficulties", which is nevertheless the great glory of human beings: problems, hopes, desires.
2006-09-01 15:49:20 · answer #2 · answered by OrtegaFollower 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well... I believe that we are destined for things to happen to us, I mean, everything has already been written to us and we're just living our life normally and pumping into what has been already set for u. The fact that we choose our actions is true! We do choose to do this and do that, but God already knows what we're going to choose eventually, whether now or in the future; because he's the one who set these things for us previously in the first place and we're just experiencing them under our "Free Will".
2006-09-01 15:18:44 · answer #3 · answered by Pinky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there are consequences in just about everything we do. From very simple to very drastic.
2006-09-01 16:20:37 · answer #4 · answered by The Pooh-Stick Kid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, because for everything we do whether preordained or not there are always roads to be taken. Each road has a set of consequences and pros.
2006-09-05 05:25:57 · answer #5 · answered by New Mommy! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes.
2006-09-01 15:02:59 · answer #6 · answered by metamorphosisa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋