I have very little experience on how to answer this. My life has been very sheltered‚ and I haven’t experiences true suffering. Much of my reasoning comes from the guidance of the Bible. Several reasons for suffering and evil include God giving us free will to choose‚ using evil to remind us about the broken world we live in‚ and using evil to draw us closer to him. There are some people who say that God should have forced man to love him. That way‚ man never would have sinned and the world would
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1. Libertarianism is the idea that if at any one moment a person has multiple possibilities for their action‚ they have free will to choose whichever action they want. The first premise of the causal determinist argument is that every event occurs under a causal condition that ensures its occurrence‚ which disproves free will. If person A is to believe in both‚ this means they believe that Aristotle’s uncaused cause idea‚ which is that a person causes an action‚ but there are no causes that make
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“Freedom‚ Determinism‚ and the Case for Moral Responsibility: A Look Back at the Murder of Jamie Bulger” begins by telling of the heinous crime that is the centerpiece of this paper. On February 12th 1993‚ British toddler Jamie Bulger abducted at a local shopping mall in Liverpool‚ England. Evidence that the two year old was beaten‚ sexually molested‚ and clubbed to death with bricks and an iron bar before discarding his body on train tracks. The age of his two assailants‚ Jon Venables and Robert
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own personality‚ spirit‚ or character‚ despite external pressures. According to Jean-Paul Sartre‚ “Existence precedes essence”‚ in other words‚ man makes himself. In order for him to define himself‚ he should be totally free. But‚ how can he be free totally? Man can be totally free when he lives an authentic way of living. By living a life of authenticity‚ man should not seek guidance towards the established codes of life. He should decline every sort of objective morals and values that is set by
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happen can‚ happen based on what has happened. However‚ one possible outcome is you if believe you have one choice but‚ you only have outcome. So‚ when you think of freewill it is incompatible with determinism. Freewill tend to be illusion we think were free but were not. Determinism tend to be that everything we do is cause. Therefore‚ freewill and determinism are incompatible. Freewill you can’t say what it does. We believe that we have choices and decision to make. We believe that we think
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philosophers. Chapter III focuses on the problem of evil. The table of contents shows it contains discussions on God and evil‚ evil with regard to varieties of atheism‚ and free will with evil. The titles and descriptions of this chapter show how it relates to things this class has already discussed; God’s goodness with respect to evil‚ and free will. These topics are therefore a continuation of that which we have already learned and are familiar with. Thus‚ studying chapter III is a good way to continue
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In today’s society‚ the issues of fate and free will are hotly debated‚ drawing in heated discussions of religion‚ chance‚ and the extent of free will. While some believe we have a significant amount of control over our lives exercised through free will in our choices‚ others believe an entirely different power is at hand in controlling our lives. These issues often find themselves associated in literature‚ with examples such as John Steinbeck’s East of Eden‚ Herman Melville’s Moby Dick‚ and Jostein
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this paper I have discussed the free will of human mind and their freedom in choice of action. It is said that we are responsible for our actions that we do out of our free will‚ thus I have discussed freedom of human mind and the responsibility that comes to us with the freedom of will. There are some doctrines in philosophy that opposes free will saying that all our actions are dependent on certain predetermined causes and thus no human is free to exercise his free will. I have written some points
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complete opposites. Libertarians believe we have free will. Whereas hard determinists believe we have no free wil what so ever‚ they believe our life is predetermined as all our actions have causes making our action predetermined. Hard determinism can be defined as the belief that every event or action is the result of preceding events and actions. Therefore‚ every event or action can be predicted in advance. Determinists do not believe we have free will. Determinists would say that every human action
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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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