2007-03-11 09:18:31 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Of course we do. We have the free will to do anything we want, right or wrong. God didn't want us to be robots, he wanted us to choose to love him or reject him.
2007-03-11 10:25:05 · answer #1 · answered by Ana Banana 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will is a subjective meaning. I think we are not allowed to have our own decisions or to make our choices.Nowadays life press us in a very hard way. Most of us never get that because we have the illusion that we are free and the world situation the way it is is our choice, that we live in the way we want. The truth is that we are just slaves who carries out the plans of those people that want to be in charge of the whole world. We live in hyper- consumerism communities and that prevent us from the reality. We don't get what is happening that's why we can't help it. My opinion, free will doesn't exist, in fact I believe it never did.
2007-03-11 16:31:26 · answer #2 · answered by Natalia B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there will be a sea battle tomorrow, and someone says "there will be a sea battle tomorrow" then that sentence is true, even before the sea battle occurs. But given that the sentence is true, the sea battle could not fail to take place. This argument can be rejected by denying that predictions about the future have to be true or false when they are made - ie, rejecting bivalence for sentences about the future. In other words, if there is a fork in the road, it can be said you will go left or you will go right. So;
1) There exist now propositions about everything that might happen in the future.
2) Every proposition is either true or else false.
3) If you accept statements 1) and 2), then there exists now a set of true propositions that, taken together, correctly predict everything that will happen in the future.
4) If there exists now a set of true propositions that, taken together, correctly predict everything that will happen in the future, then whatever will happen in the future is already unavoidable.
2007-03-11 16:55:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I say that I have the ability to go completely against my instinct. This is part of the definition of free will. If I can stand on a cliff and just decide "This is the day, bye everyone", to me, that is the very essence of free will. So I say it exists.
Would I do that action every single time if presented with that option? Am I a slave to my "programming"? I don't know, we can probably never know. But I'll run with my definition.
2007-03-11 16:50:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you mean by free will.
In the strictist sense of the phrase, no.
We are the sum of our life, the expression of our whole past unto the first generation. All of which has brought to bear forces that shape and mold our minds, our will, and our preceptions. We can only choose among the choices that we precieve as presented to us. These choices are seldom of our own making alone. Thus it is that we interact with the universe to obey its bidding because we can do nothing else. It is the way we are made.
2007-03-11 16:38:07 · answer #5 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we do have a free will. To say that nobody knows for sure is ludricous. You had a free will to pose that question. You have a 'free will' to rob a bank or make an honest living. You have a 'free will' to believe in God or not believe in Him.
2007-03-13 10:09:34 · answer #6 · answered by jmb222 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will is a choice of actions. Each person puts a moral meaning behind that, or not.
2007-03-11 16:35:01 · answer #7 · answered by Denise W 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one knows for sure but I would say it makes more sense to believe that our behavior is entirely the result of a chain of cause and effect relationships than to believe that human behavior is somehow exempt from the laws of physics that seem to entirely, if mysteriously, govern all motion in the universe.
2007-03-11 17:43:05 · answer #8 · answered by marc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will is the sole choice to decide who and what you will be, or to end your life.
2007-03-11 16:40:04 · answer #9 · answered by xxx 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
free will does not exist in a world with god.
since if god exists he knows what you will do and therefore you have no choice but to do it or it would prove god wrong.
2007-03-11 22:35:59 · answer #10 · answered by stealthisprofile 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋