Since you can only choose from the choices your personality make up allows you, how are you really in control?
2006-12-03 07:49:10 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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2006-12-03 08:40:03 · update #1
I believe that our wills are not free.
We may act only as our nature permits -- for instance, if I tell my son to come here, he may choose to run, skip, army crawl, walk on his hands, etc., but he is NOT able to choose (freely or otherwise) to grow wings and fly. It's not in his nature to fly. It's the same with us. Our choices are genuine, and the things that you want to do, you genuinely do, if they are in line with your nature! So I guess the question becomes, what is your nature?
2006-12-03 15:44:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Who says that's always the case?
I mean, for the most part in the mindless decisions we make every day, and for even most of the bigger ones, sure. But anyone can have an epiphany.
And for a lot of those mindless decisions, there's nothing to base it on at all, where personality makeup doesn't even come into play.
Do I take my next step with my left or right foot?
I'm right handed so right.
But oops, someone bumped into me and I'm off balance, better make it left.
But I'm not used to left and now I stepped sorta on the side of my foot and my ankle rolled out, now I'm under the train and dead.
2006-12-03 07:53:58 · answer #2 · answered by socialdeevolution 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will is an illusion. There is no freedom to the will.
FWists, cannot even define what they mean by free will. Go ahead, ask them to define free will. Then ask them if they have an example of some act of will where they could have just as easily not done the thing that they did, as to do it... and then ask them how it is that they did the thing that they did.
You are on the right track, there is no free will.
2006-12-04 05:16:02 · answer #3 · answered by Phil Knight 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i see no reason why freewill is flawed by the lack of vision of a few folks who cage themselves, the only thing that controls anyone is the goals that people choose for themselves and what they're willing to live with in order to see those goals reached and that alone is freewill it's in everything we do. We have to choose what we do and don't do and if we limit those choices that itself is a choice we make nobody forces us
2006-12-03 08:00:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the concept is flawed because of the idea of negative consequences attached to making a bad choice. If there were no negative consequences (such as - if you do this, you're going to hell) and you still made the "right" choice, then I think there would truly be such a thing as "free will."
2006-12-03 09:11:23 · answer #5 · answered by kaus 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no free will in life.Every thing is preplanned. The free will comes to play only during the execution of work. How a person does it is what matters. Grudgingly, treating it as a burden, a duty or with pleasure.
2006-12-03 21:53:36 · answer #6 · answered by No Saint 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First and foremost is the word concept...the word in itself is not without flaw. Second "control", no-one is in total control of anything...to many variables of time.
2006-12-03 07:56:21 · answer #7 · answered by jwsearching 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It has more to do with how you deal with the choices presented to you. You are free to do with them as you will.
2006-12-03 08:26:15 · answer #8 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religious invention.
2006-12-03 08:09:29 · answer #9 · answered by -.- 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your personality doesn't necessarily bound your decisions.
2006-12-03 07:56:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋