Are we, in actuality, slaves to Fate?
2006-09-09 02:24:35 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Hi..
"Free will is limited, by the laws of nature"... I can't fly, or live in a vacuum....
Ones own personality and mental state... Though in theory one can do things at odds with one's personality, but it certainly is difficult....
Laws and regulations..
Conscience, sense of fair play and justice, etc....
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The last three things are not strictly speaking absolute bars to the excerise of free will, but they are certainly important...
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For example : an addict, in theory, can by his own free will overcome his addiction... But, whether he can or not depends on a number of factors : his personality, the support he gets from friends, relatives, charities or state agencies, etc...
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Since the ability to exercise "free will" is itself dependent on personality traits that are inherited or acquired?
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Thanks, for the question!;D
My regards!
2006-09-11 12:30:28 · answer #1 · answered by Kimberly 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's an illusion, but the perp isn't exactly fate. Rather other people dictate your will most of the time, so it's all interconnected.
Free thought however can be made reality, you just need to will it- that's the only will that matters.
2006-09-09 09:30:33 · answer #2 · answered by yasiru89 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have free will...that's what God has given us. Fate is the illusion. If, however, we want to carry out the higher plan, we must follow the road he chose-it will create a better life and afterlife.
2006-09-09 11:23:06 · answer #3 · answered by aerie anna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a difficult question. Freedom is an illusion because you must go working to win your life, You can't decide of your politic life.Event if you choose to live out of town without peoples, are you free? I dont think about it. You should depend to others, with food problems, medecine and health.... Free seems just an illusion.
2006-09-09 09:36:05 · answer #4 · answered by Hades et Persephone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fate is for people who have an external locus of control. They believe that there must be something organizing the unknown future because they don't believe that their actions guide their own life. Free will is mostly true. Exceptions including willing ourselves into the past, willing ourselves to rise fromthe dead, or willing ourselves to go faster than the speed of light. I say there is free will within the confines of physical laws.
2006-09-09 10:05:38 · answer #5 · answered by Dan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
freewill exists.. choice exists... no, we're not slaves to fate, but the options of what directions to turn is base on where you want to go. though it holds true, that fate still led you down that road, it doesn't mean you didn't have the option of what fate awaits you on the other turn. we will never know... just this, you are the driver, your life is the road, fate is the direction of the road...
2006-09-09 13:32:25 · answer #6 · answered by VeRDuGo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That depends on how you define free will. Some people believe that if you can perfectly predict another persons actions, that they don't have free will.
I believe that free will is simply the ability to gather information and make a decision.
2006-09-09 13:02:26 · answer #7 · answered by Michael M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we want to survive and lead a life with sense, there's no other option than to believe that we have free will to exist.
2006-09-09 10:13:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We probably have freedom of volition, but it is well nigh impossible to demonstrate logically that rational agents are free with respect to their volition or faculty of choice. But it is also difficult to account for moral culpability, if rational agents do not have free will. Free will is one factor that grounds morality.
2006-09-09 12:45:47 · answer #9 · answered by sokrates 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Understandings are perceived we live in an explosion of perceptual fragments, these connective fragments give us flight, freewill is any path we choose through our own perceptions
2006-09-09 09:31:40 · answer #10 · answered by voncaros 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋