One example of and additional application of Frankfurt’s view would be pruning. This is where you will go through you first-order desires and decide which ones that you want, and which ones that you don’t want. This helps to give people a more meaning full life, because it causes them to become more focused and dedicated to what they are doing. We don’t have infinite time, and we can’t do every first order desire that pops into our heads. If we did every first order desire that pops into our minds
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Free will and moral responsibility of the basic argument is a natural place to start. Strawson contradicts the statement “normal adult beings are are responsible for their personality”. Well this statement may have a few angles because it is not the person
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There are two ways to make a decision. One could think about the pros and cons, weigh their options and consider what would be best for the situation and circumstances. One could also not think by doing completely irrational and absurd actions. How then Should We Choose provides three views from three different writers on how to decided what God’s will is for one’s life. The three views: the specific-will, the wisdom, and the relationship views help one understand the process of making decisions
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comfort in believing that everything happens for a reason, and that fate will lead them to the desired path. They believe that their life has already been planned out for them, and nothing they do can change that. Yet others place their beliefs in free will, and the idea that their actions determine their future. This is the case for the protagonists in both Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Sophocles’ Oedipus The King. Macbeth was given a prophecy that he would become King of Scotland, yet with his power-hungry
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Foreknowledge, freedom, and necessity argued by Alexander Aphrodisias deliberates that we have the freedom to decide what to do and shouldn’t do when we make decisions based on our actions. We take full responsibility of our choices and actions, they are believe to be not necessitated because we are not forced to make a decision for the reason, that we have the thought and knowledge of the actions we perform and knowing the results of them. We can’t take into account of our actions in the future
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“Free will is … a necessary illusion”(Agard, The Humanities for Our Times) which we need to keep a degree of order in our lives. Both free will and fate are large themes in Sophocles’s play Oedipus Rex, a story about a king who learns the dreadful crimes of his past. Free will is a necessary illusion because we as humans need to believe in free will, we need to believe we have control over our own lives. If we lose the illusion then we lose our sense of control, and chaos could ensue. Life is
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I believe hard determinism is true. However, the idea of not understanding the definition of “free will” through compatibilism is a strong argument. This idea is explained by W.T. Stace. The concept he argues involves the second premise of the dilemma argument and he explains that we do not truly understand the meaning of “free will”. This is a strong reason for objection when we think about choices we make. If something happens that we must drastically react to then how could that be pre-determined
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An Essay about the Problem of Evil The problem of evil is a question that inevitably arises as people begin to argue the existence of a God, who is omniscient, omnipotent, and omni-benevolent when the world is filled with undesirable state of affairs (evil). Atheistic proponents, in particular, argue that a perfect God would not be able to withstand such existence of evil. Therefore, they contend that God could not possibly exist. The responses against the problem of evil are generally divided as
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When one is defining free will its said to be the power to act one’s own discretion. A common argument known as determinism asks how can we make our own choices if all actions are already determined by the events of the past working with laws of nature resulting in a set future. On the other hand compatabilism views that the two in fact can coexist. Compatabibilism brings the two ideas together resulting in the choices we face now are a result of the choices we faced in the past all leading to one
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How many words must one speak to create an emotion? Must we speak harsh words to create a hurt in someone’s soul? One does not need to try hard to write painful words, all one must say is he or she is done with trying. There are many different kinds of words that build a story or a poem. Words can do so much harm and good. In the statement “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me.” It is a lie. Words can bring a person up in an instance or tear them done in a millisecond
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