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Title: Freedom - Determinism Theories


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Freedom - Determinism Theories
  • Determinism all human actions are caused
  • Hard Determinism behavior is caused by either
    unconscious desires and fears (Freud) or by
    environment and heredity (Skinner). Freedom is an
    illusion, and people are not responsible for
    their actionsthough they can be held responsible
    for social purposes
  • Objections how we can challenge or change our
    attitudes if we are determined? Why not explain
    behavior with reasons, not causes?

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Freedom - Determinism Theories
  • Libertarianism our free choices define our
    selves this is what we experience, and is what
    our theory should explain (Sartre)
  • Objection how can we be both cause effect?
  • Freedom as an Assumption Morality requires that
    we think of ourselves as free. As objects in the
    world, we are determined but as conscious,
    choosing beings, we are free (Kant)

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Freedom - Determinism Theories
  • Existentialism freedom self-consciousness
    consist in our ability to conceive that which is
    notand that could not be caused by what is
  • The proper way to describe human actions is in
    terms of reasons, not causes
  • Objection Wanting to believe in freedom does not
    make it true besides, even that belief itself is
    determined
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