Philosophical Concepts

Question	Answer
Free Will	Capacity of rational agents (humans) to choose a course of action from among various alternatives.
Determinism	Belief that all events caused by past events such that nothing other than what does occur can occur; no free will.
Libertariamism	Belief that mataphysically we can act freely; humans have entirely free will.
Compatibalism	Everything is determined: - if internally determined = free choice - if externally determined = no free choice
Moral Responsibility	Morally deserving praise/blame for an act.
Theory of Ultimate Reality	Absolute nature of all things.
Reductionalism	View that all parts of world/experience can be traced back to one singular thing.
Welfare Liberalism	Social equality through equal opportunity
Classical Liberalism	Believe in freedom of private ownership.
Causality	Agency which connects one process to another (being partly responsible for the second).
Transivity	A causes B B causes C therefore A cause C
Anti-causation	Cannot say for certain if one thing causes another.
Mind-Body Conundrum	Problem of explaining relation of mind to body.
Dualism	Mind is seperate from body: Mind = non- physical Brain = physical.
Materialism	Mind and body are one physical entity.
Idealism	Ultimate reality is the mind (everything perceived through mind).

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