Free Will and Determinism - created from Mind Map

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Love FREE WILL

HATE free will Hard Determinists

Bridge in-between Soft Determinism or Compatibilist

Honderich

Locke

Spinoza

Libertarianism

lives are completely determined by other factors & we subsequently have no genuine freedom

Leopald and Loeb / Darrow

diminished responsibility

"He did not make himself. And yet he is compelled to pay."

They killed him because they were made that way

Certain determining factors: upbringing, may influence = ultimate decisions are theirs alone.

David Hume

All actions are caused

Internal and External Causes

Free from coercion

"Determinism is true, compatibilism is false."

"Freedom of choice is an illusion."

Man locked in a room

"there is no absolute or free will" and argues that "the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause."

Life is a chain of events chain of infinite regress

complete moral responsibility. We are totally free and are influenced by nothing and no-one.

Kant

If we have the power to choose, how do we choose?

•Locke's analogy of a man locked in a room without knowing he is locked there - just because we feel free, it doesn't mean we are. Feeling free is not really a strength of the theory at all

•Very few of us would argue that past experiences, emotion, beliefs and values have no influence on us whatsoever

'Ought'

Choice to act differently