Free Will Vs Determinism
There has been a lot of arguments between free will and determinism. Do we have Free Will or is everything already pre-determined? If one believes in determinism, he thinks that everything that has happened is supposed to happen. Free will means that we are able to make our own choices in how to act and what we want to happen to us. I think that we all have Free Will because of the fact that we all end up doing what we want to do, not what we expect to happen. When people make choices, they are aware of the freedom that they have. People question if that freedom really persists, and is all just a figment of imagination, as if it’s all dictated for us. At the end of the day, it’s the persons own point of view that decides how you see it. “Imagine
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As stated by Leucippus, “an absolute necessity leaves no room in the cosmos for chance.” “Nothing occurs at random, but everything for a reason and by necessity.” Many compatibilists accept that determinism is real. They also argue about the fact that a man is free as long as his own choices are in the chain of what is supposed to occur. Fatalism is a form of determinism that explains how every event in the future is fated to happen. Determinism in general is mostly related to causality. But causality can happen without determinism if it follows an uncaused event that was not predictable from events in the past. If indeterminism occurs, that means that the events happen without a specific cause. So there can possibly be adequate determinism. Regular situations for objects would approach statistical certainty. If determinism is real, then there is only one possible future. So we are not able to make our own decisions? Phillipa Foot had argued that because our actions are determined by what we want to do, how we act, our beliefs, how we feel, what we desire, does not under any circumstance lead to the conclusion that they are pre-determined from the beginning of time. It’s a big argument between free will and determinism, but it is up to us and our beliefs to determine what is actually true. Determinism proves that all the events going on in the worlds are the result of a previous
As stated by Leucippus, “an absolute necessity leaves no room in the cosmos for chance.” “Nothing occurs at random, but everything for a reason and by necessity.” Many compatibilists accept that determinism is real. They also argue about the fact that a man is free as long as his own choices are in the chain of what is supposed to occur. Fatalism is a form of determinism that explains how every event in the future is fated to happen. Determinism in general is mostly related to causality. But causality can happen without determinism if it follows an uncaused event that was not predictable from events in the past. If indeterminism occurs, that means that the events happen without a specific cause. So there can possibly be adequate determinism. Regular situations for objects would approach statistical certainty. If determinism is real, then there is only one possible future. So we are not able to make our own decisions? Phillipa Foot had argued that because our actions are determined by what we want to do, how we act, our beliefs, how we feel, what we desire, does not under any circumstance lead to the conclusion that they are pre-determined from the beginning of time. It’s a big argument between free will and determinism, but it is up to us and our beliefs to determine what is actually true. Determinism proves that all the events going on in the worlds are the result of a previous