FREE WILL AND DETERMINISM

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Free will and determinism: Determinism, free will and moral responsibility Soft determinism (David Hume) Hard determinism (Clarence Darrow and Ted Honderich)
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FREE WILL AND DETERMINISM
  1. Freedom and moral respnsibility
    1. We should be morally responsible for actions that we freely perform. For example, if someone is forced at gun point to commit an immoral act, he is not blameworthy (morally responsible). We can only hold people morally responsible for actions that are freely undertaken.
    2. What is Determinism
      1. Hard Determinism
        1. A concept that says that choices and actions are determined by other events or actions prior to the choice. Therefore we can't be morally responsible as all of our actions have a prior cause, and so are predetermined so we don't have free will. Because we don't have free will we aren't morally responsible.
          1. CASE STUDY: CLARENCE DARROW
            1. Clarence Darrow defended two young men Leopold and Richard from charge of murder by arguing that their crime was predetermined by their upbringing and so the murderers weren't morally responsible.
            2. PHILOSOPHER: TED HONDERICH
              1. Ted Honderich: Everything is determined so we have no choice in our actions so we can't be morally responsible. He uses the example of saying our mind is the effect of our brain activity and so is predetermined. Honderich therefore believes we shouldn't be punished at all as our actions are predetermined so we have no free will so we shouldn't be morally responsible.
            3. Example: The white ball causally determines the black ball to go into the hole. - Sufficient reason.
              1. The view that all events are determined by other prior events.
                1. Determinism is influenced by Newton's laws of motion of cause and effect Newton claimed that the universe was a closed system and everything in it can be explained.
              2. Soft Determinism
                1. Some of our actions are determined but we are morally responsible.
                  1. Free will is not compatible with fatalism which is about how nobody can change the course of events, but free will is compatible with determinism (universal causation).
                  2. Actions are caused because if they weren't then they would be unpredictable and random. According to soft determinists we are free in making choices when we aren't forced by external pressure.
                    1. Two types of causes
                      1. Internal causes are those that lead to voluntary actions of free will, based on a person's desires. For example, when you eat, you eat because you are hungry.
                        1. External causes are those that lead to involuntary actions where you are forced. For example, when you are held at gun point and forced to rob a bank.
                      2. DAVID HUME
                        1. Also believed that every act had to be caused otherwise they would be random and unpredictable.
                          1. He also said that free will is the internal cause. He demonstrated this with the example of Locke's man.
                            1. Locke's man in the locked room voluntarily stays there as he doesn't know the room is locked.
                              1. So according to Hume, as long as we are not constrained by external factors, we are acting out of free will so we are morally responsible.

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