Arguments Against Compatibilism

There are many different topics and subjects that can go as far back as our first ancestors that people argued against one another. Each person wanting to prove the other wrong. Some of the questions have been answered today like the sun is in fact the center of the solar system and everything revolves around it. Before, many people believed earth was the center of the universe and would kill others that didn’t go along and agree. There are some subjects that have not been answered however. Everyone has different opinions and not one person is going to think like the next. Some people want a lot of evidence and some only need to be told to believe. The topic of free will fits into this category. Free will is the ability for a person to be able
Compatibilism is the idea that free will and determinism can coexist. The choices that we are faced with today are the causes of choices we have made in the past. Compatibilist believe that freedom is the ability for a person to be able to make their own choices and not be restricted. One of the major objections to compatibilism is that many other philosophers believe they have the wrong idea over what freedom is as well as free will. Other arguments over compatibilism are that they don’t believe that compatibilist are asking enough of free will and are only looking at the surface and not at the genuine facts about free
Hard determinism is a view on free will which states that determinism is true and that it is incompatible with free will. Because of this, it states that we do not have a free will at all. This can be a major objection because it spells out that we don’t have any free will and no control over our actions. Many people can see this as scary to think about and therefore reject it. Everyone likes to think that we have choices but when you truly sit down and think about it, do you? All our actions are determined by external factors. The big argument against hard determinism is the opposite than listed above. People think they have the choices in their life and they are results from the past and it will impact the