First Year Seminar in K-State Culture DAS 100 • Section F • Willard Hall 123 • Tuesday 2:30 pm • Fall 2012 Instructor: Jenny Oleen‚ MLS • 414B Hale Library 785-532-0708 • jkoleen@ksu.edu Course Description Welcome to First Year Seminar in K-State Culture! Instead of listening passively to lectures‚ you will directly experience what a university is by attending the varied cultural and intellectual activities that occur at K-State. In this class‚ you will learn about the very broad range
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before today‚ it does not mean that I must eat bread today as I can still choose to eat congee as my breakfast. My behavior is chosen out of my freewill. Because of our belief in freewill‚ we talk about morally responsibility. If our actions are not free‚ then we would not have to be morally responsible for our actions. The notion of freewill is necessary as the concept of moral responsibility is based on freewill.
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which is false. Because argument can be false with other things‚ not valid. 2. Carefully explain Harry Frankfurt’s view of free will. Is his position persuasive? Why or why not? Make sure to defend your position against objections. a. The slogan for Frankfurt’s view of free will is “your will is free when you have the will you want to have.” He believes that you have free will when you are in control of your desires. i. 1st order desires are the desires to perform some action or actions. ii
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determinism argues that: (a) Determinism is true (b) Determinism is incompatible with free will (Holbach‚ 451). In defense of premise (a)‚ the hard determinist says that obviously everything is caused‚ therefore determinism is true. To prove that determinism is false‚ the opponent would have to come up with an example of an uncaused event. To defend premise (b)‚ the hard determinist would say that no action is free if it must occur. Human actions result from wants‚ desires‚ motivations‚ feelings‚ etc
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God cannot be omniscient‚ benevolent and omnipotent simply because evil exists‚ is a statement of the problem of evil argument. If God was an omniscient being‚ he would have known everything about evil‚ if he were benevolent; he then would have stopped all evil from occurring and if at all he were omnipotent ha then would have been able to stop all evil. The evil exists‚ therefore‚ an omnipotent‚ benevolent and omnipotent entity does not exist either. There are two arguments on the evil or problem
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Discuss and evaluate the concepts of free will and determinism in explaining human behaviour. Assess reductionism as a way of explaining human behaviour. Throughout the years there has been a long debate with nature vs. nurture on human behaviour‚ why do we behave the way we do? What reason does one person choose to commit crimes whilst others abide by the law? In my essay I will be discussing the concepts of free will and determinism‚ and explaining human behaviour through reductionism. The
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I believe that free will is true in saying‚ the idea that humans can freely choose their actions rather than all our lives being predetermined like the way determinist believe. Determinist think free will is just simply an illusion‚ and that our thoughts come from our background‚ and we are unaware as to which we strive no conscious control. As Sam Harris philosopher‚ claims that our thoughts and desires impose instinctive circumstances that define the character of your consciousness in that moment
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mean that we are never free and never will. Socrates: That is correct and determinism actually holds that perspective‚ however‚ as humans evolved into a species with remarkable intellectual abilities and particularly the development of self-consciousness and awareness of the self-bring about a new perspective. Isn’t it that we can define our destiny by free choice? That is what free will is after all. Interviewer: So free will could be defined as... Socrates: Free will can be defined as
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side with determinism and its thesis that everything that occurs‚ happens of necessity. With that being said‚ I am in strong agreement with the classical compatibilist view that we are “free to do otherwise” even if all thoughts and actions are determined by cause and effect implications. It is vital that we are “free to do otherwise” since this gives us accountability for our actions and allows us to attain moral responsibility. Unlike John Martin Fischer’s semi-compatibilism‚ I hold that determinism
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Explain the problem of evil and Augustine’s Theodicy. What is evil? John Hick defined evil as “physical pain‚ mental suffering and moral wickedness”. The monotheistic God of Christianity supposedly possesses divine qualities of omnipotence‚ omniscience and Omni benevolence. Omnipotence means the almighty and all knowing‚ omniscience means having infinite knowledge and Omni benevolent means all loving. If God is all of these things then why is there evil? The problem of evil brings up some big
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