2007-12-10 06:49:48 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Arthur Schopenhauer put the puzzle of free will and moral responsibility in these terms:
Everyone believes himself a priori to be perfectly free, even in his individual actions, and thinks that at every moment he can commence another manner of life... . But a posteriori, through experience, he finds to his astonishment that he is not free, but subjected to necessity, that in spite of all his resolutions and reflections he does not change his conduct, and that from the beginning of his life to the end of it, he must carry out the very character which he himself condemns.
2007-12-10 06:58:27 · answer #1 · answered by Easy B Me II 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Free will has been cultivated by images, words and theories harbored by our for fathers.. ALL of our thoughts and dreams are influenced by that which we see and hear day to day. IF, and that's a loose term, if.. we have actual free will.. it is so minuscule that we couldn't pin point it under a microscope. I think that the ONLY free will we might have left as humans as I sit here and ponder would be our sexuality. I doubt that we succumb to peer pressure of sex, "Well my friends like to do it this way so I am going to do it this way"... I think that perhaps sex.. is the only area of our lives with we control 100%, even when it is corrupt and degrading.
Every other facit of our daily life has been touched by media, and family and friends and teachers, and religion.. ALL giving their own oppinions about what is RIGHT and WRONG..
2007-12-10 08:19:20 · answer #2 · answered by ~{The Contessa}~ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None because what we call free will is really free choice.
We have freedom to choose one thing over another but we are not free to act independently of natural, social or divine restraints.
2007-12-10 11:47:04 · answer #3 · answered by Emory 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God Is, and within that One Mind Soul, Soul-individuation procedes, per divine laws and a multitude of opportunities and choices.
When a soulfield leaves the Edenic Mystery School vibrancy, e.g. on a daily basis moving from a University of the Spirit back down the octaval Jacobean ladder, there are encountered energy tests and challenges.
How the soulfield handles these often agonistic dyadics conditions and in-forms the Light-motif (pun intended) of one's day, including making energy entanglements in Matter, aka "karma" or "sowing and reaping cycles."
Within One Mind Soul, there is infinite increase of ability to choose, among the infinity of Energy configurations, for personal development. Outside the Law of the One, iniquity, such as pride, greed, lust, obtains, a la Plotinus' notion of how energy-veiling, e-veiling, eviling, occurs, as degrees of separation from One Mind Soul-individuation.
Each person, outside of the Edenic, has diminishing degrees of "free will," according to his or her erring and self-entangling.
"Free will" is a mortal misnomer, for Oneness and Soul-realization are of the ability to make right choice, whereas "free will" is typically cast in the distorted light of mortal arrogating unto synthetic self-ishness denser desires stemming from errors such as pride, greed, lust, etc.
"Freedom, the Spirit Triumphant," O. M. Aivanhov, "Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet, and "Watch Your Dreams," Ann Ree Colton, correctly discuss methods of enhancing one's degrees of freedom. It is a serious and scientific pursuit.
cordially,
j.
2007-12-10 07:02:07 · answer #4 · answered by j153e 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have as much free will as our respective governments and social order allows us.
And that is about all in the physical world.
But when it comes to our thoughts? Only God could confine those, and He allows us to go anywhere we want with it in this life time.
2007-12-10 07:19:43 · answer #5 · answered by the old dog 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When you can stop your cells from multiplying by choice or body from jerking when you are startled you will have achieved free will.
You can't even control your body, what makes you think you have any control of anything else?
2007-12-10 07:38:16 · answer #6 · answered by @@@@@@@@ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are free to believe (or not believe) in any way we choose.
We are free to make our own choices in life...whether they be good or bad ones.
We are free to decide whether or not we want to face man's consequences, if our choices are too out-of-line.
2007-12-10 06:55:59 · answer #7 · answered by I Heart Holidays... 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We don't have free will, but our brains are wired to delude us into thinking that we do. Logically, I don't see any way free will can exist in a causal universe, which is what we exist in.
2007-12-10 07:29:25 · answer #8 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i have as much free will as a human can have,
because i am confident yet able to doubt myself.
2007-12-10 06:52:05 · answer #9 · answered by whimsy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i seriously don't think we have much "free will". if we did than our world would b diffferent
2007-12-10 06:51:46 · answer #10 · answered by stefstudy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋