a classic question here ---- do we have free will or not? (and why or why not???)
2007-11-28 16:48:45 · 7 answers · asked by LWSW1954 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes we do. You had a choice to ask that question, and I had a choice to answer it. Even as I write, I can make the choice to stop writing this answer and do something else. It's just the way we are.
2007-11-28 16:52:26 · answer #1 · answered by Dan in Real Life 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope.
As a determinist I believe everything is the result of causality and the thought process is not outside the laws of the universe and therefore are part of the deterministic system of everything.
Sure you can do the whole "well quantum physics proves that it is not deterministic and random" which is basically saying your free will is random rather than deterministic and doesn't actually explain free will.
At any minute I can do what I want but in the end I cant choose which thing I decided to want most.
2007-11-29 01:59:28 · answer #2 · answered by Clint 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes we do and no we don't...
yes because we all have the freedom to choose our choices... Everything that has happened to us is because of the choices we made...
No because everything has been decided by destiny... Everything has been preordained... Whatever that has happened has been already foretold... The choices are part of the course of destiny... Think about it like an organizational chart... Here's choice A and here's choice B... With Choice A here are the possible outcomes and with choice B here are the possible outcomes... Catch my drift? So even if you say that we have free will, It isn't entirely true since every choice already has its predetermined outcome... Hitsuzen...
2007-11-29 08:30:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your actions are a product of the past.
Nothing can be interjected without a link to the past.
So free will can't be spontaneous,it must be derived from something before the action takes place.
2007-11-29 10:51:19 · answer #4 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the ability to surely die is the only determination of free will, because however it may be guaranteed, at least it is constant. Now the path and choices we make until than may not solely be of our own making, we can be sure that at any moment, we could, if desired, die.
2007-11-29 01:01:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we do. It's the highest worth of being a person - the ability to make a decision, a truly unique ability belonging to our race. It's in decision making that we were created in "the image of God".
2007-11-29 01:10:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes we do.Why do we have it ? Only God knows. He is the one that gives it to us in the first place.
2007-11-29 01:16:43 · answer #7 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋