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Free will and Determinism
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- 1CLARENCE DARROWLawyer of the Leopold and Loeb case.
Believed that actions were determined by their upbringing, environment and ancestry. - 2JOHN HOSPERSEverything that we do is caused by an external or internal force which makes us think that what we are doing is a product of free will.
- 3JOHN LOCKEAnalogy: a man is sleeping in a locked room, when he wakes up he decides to stay in bed but doesn't realise that in reality he cannot move out of the room anyway.
- 4DAWKINSAll of our feelings are down to our biology and moral responsibility is down to natural selection.
- 5TED HONDERICHEverything is physically determined; there are no choices. The mind is a product of our brain activity and our actions are caused by psycho-neural events in the brain.
- 6PETER VAN INWAGENLibertarianism allows you to choose which branch you want to go down.
- 7WENER HEISENBERGBetter to refer to statistical probabilities than to general laws that we assume will be constant. Some events are uncaused e.g. human decisions.
- 8JEAN-PAUL SARTREFreedom is our goal! Without freedom of choice, there is no meaning to life.
- 9JOHN CALVINGod has already chosen who he's going to save and who he's going to damn.
'You are going to do something before you have even thought of it. Everything you do is planned' - 10AUGUSTINE OF HIPPOGod chooses who he's going to give his grace to - this assures salvation for that person.
- 11VOLTAIREPear trees cannot bear bananas - everything is planned.
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