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Mind Map by lauren_walji, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by lauren_walji
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Compatibilism
- Freedom compatible with determinism, denies
liberty of indifference (in my power to act in a
certain number of ways, able to reason and
control) asserts liberty of sponteneity (free if can
act according to decisions without coercion or
hindrance)
- Hume said free will is 'the power of
acting or not acting' - action caused
by choice (choice may have been
caused by other events)
- Weak notion of freewill - not
really free because to be free
is i could have chosen
differently
- E.g. smoking - if chose not
to would not have - but cant
choose differently because
controlled by addiction
- E.g. smoking - if chose not
to would not have - but cant
choose differently because
controlled by addiction
- Weak notion of freewill - not
really free because to be free
is i could have chosen
differently
- Hume thought no necessary
connection between events in
world - just happens to be the
way, uniform and contingent
- E.g. accounts in history of of
people who share common
motives and behaviours
- Constant conjunction of
cause and effect is causation
- regular
- My desires still determined by
my character (social, environment
and biological conditioning) but
connection between desires and
actions is not necessary.
- Motives and actions go
together throughout history
- Does not allow for the same person
to act differently in the same
situation- because of regularity - if
impossible to act differently are we
really free?
- Hume would respond with hidden
causes - if you had had wanted to
act differently there would have
been hidden causes causing this
- Hume would respond with hidden
causes - if you had had wanted to
act differently there would have
been hidden causes causing this
- If character determined by exposure to
violence as a child - release frustration
through violence against children - am i
really free? Law consider me free? Or drug
addict? If cannot choose desire not really
free
- E.g. accounts in history of of
people who share common
motives and behaviours
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