Then go through the compatiblist responses of stace and ayer. Do you succeed in salvaging a relevant notion of freewill?can we make a relevant separation between free and unfree acts on the basis of how we use the words?
2006-11-06 04:33:04 · 9 answers · asked by Kanye East 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Read The Four Agreements,
I have free will, because I refuse to comform to societies dream.
When some one trieds to put me down for my beliefs, I know they are just trying to drag me into their own hell with hem. And they will only suceed If I agree to it.
2006-11-06 04:39:03 · answer #1 · answered by danksprite420 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hmmm...
If you come to a fork in the road, you have to decide which path to take. You decide and continue walking. Now, did you make the choice with free will? Or did you take the path that was predetermined for you to take?
If Einstein was correct in saying the past, the future, and the present, have already happened at this moment, sounds like predetermination. But the Heisenberg Theory of uncertainty claims otherwise.
I think the past is an abstract thought - it is in your mind, it already happened. The future is also an abstract thought - it only exists in your mind, it hasn't happened yet. The present is just the infinitly small time between past and future. So, actual reality only exists in one's mind - reality is actually abstract thought.
Stephen Hawkin says, "I never saw a man who believes in predestination who doesn't look both ways while crossing a road."
2006-11-06 13:05:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is always a choice. We may say, "I had to do it. There was no choice in the matter." In fact, we always have a choice. In those cases, we have weighed the consequences in our mind and concluded that the action (or speech) in question was or was not worth the consequences for said action. There are times when the choice is do or die, but that's still a choice.
Freewill - done of one's own accord; voluntary.
2006-11-06 12:44:15 · answer #3 · answered by Behind Blue Eyes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES IT DOES, BUT WITH A PRICE!!! SO IS IT REALLY FREE?
E.G., WE ARE BORN WITH FREEDOM OF VOLITION TO
MAKE OUR OWN CHOICES, WHETHER GOOD OR BAD.
AND YET AT THE SAME TIME WE ARE JUDGED FOR THEM
AS WELL.. SOMEONE ONCE ASKED THIS QUESTION, "IF I'M
GIVEN FREEDOM OF CHOICE, THEN WHY SHOULD I BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR MY ACTIONS"? IF OUR CHOICES
BRING A PENALTY, THEN THERE IS'NT REALLY ANY FREEDOM IN WHAT WE SAY, DO, OR ACT UPON!!!
FREE WILL COMES WITH A PRICE, PERIOD!!!!
2006-11-06 12:53:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, sounds interesting, I'll bet you've already had class material to help you with the answer.
2006-11-06 12:40:31 · answer #5 · answered by Kacky 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I answered this question. ........(to get 2 points ) so my decision was being affected by rewards....so my answer is no.
2006-11-06 12:43:17 · answer #6 · answered by saosin 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You're trying to get us to do your paper, aren't you?
2006-11-06 12:52:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
not as long as there are any rules...
Free will=no rule
2006-11-06 14:49:56 · answer #8 · answered by The dude 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES!!
2006-11-06 12:35:09 · answer #9 · answered by jnmcmlln 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋