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Free Will: are we free or is our life pre-determined?
Date Submitted: 12/18/2001 14:37:33
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 5 pages (1510 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 5 pages (1510 words)
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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