Libertarianism, Free Will and Determinism (focus: Philosophers and quotes)
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A-Level RS (Free Will, Determinism and Libertarianism) Mind Map on Libertarianism, Free Will and Determinism (focus: Philosophers and quotes), created by markt13eduacc on 05/06/2014.
Libertarianism, Free
Will and Determinism
(focus: Philosophers
and quotes)
Compatiabilism
Hume
"by liberty we mean the power of acting or not acting according to the determination of the will"
Aj Ayer
Freedom is when "your action has a special sort of cause"
Determinism
Hard Determinism
John Locke (locked room - seems
a determinist argument)
Honderich
"Simple or complex however all actions are movements...caused by
states of the brain....we can only act in fact, as we do. It follows too that
we are not responsible for our actions.
Libertarianism
Political
J.S. Mill
"whatever crushes individualism is despotism"
John Locke
the question be not "whether the will be free,
but WHETHER A MAN BE FREE"
Philosophical (metaphysical aspects)
Kant
metaphysical part of is that is free. Not
determined by causes etc.
William James
Soft Determinism is "a
quagmire of Evasions"
Annotations:
[swamp - metaphorically speaking!
so unclear]
"my first act of free will is to believe in free will"