Free Will: are we free or is our life pre-determined?
Title: Free Will: are we free or is our life pre-determined?
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 1510 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Free Will: are we free or is our life pre-determined?
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 1510 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
When we go out into the world are our actions really a result of our free will or were they predetermined by conditions in our past? The determinist and the fatalist believe these fixed conditions in our past transcend any notion that agents have the power to act otherwise than they in fact do. Determinists follow the idea that at any given moment, there is one and only one future state of affairs that is
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always need to hold onto the idea that they have free will and they produce their own volitions.
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