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Ethics - Free Will and Determinism

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  1. 1What did Darrow say about hard determinism?
    1. A“What has this boy to do with it? ... He did not make himself.”
    2. BWill is “no more than effects of other equally necessitated events.” A ‘black thing’ (Mill: an ‘incubus’)
    3. CLocked room. Tabula rasa.
    4. DLaplace’s Demon.
  2. 2What did Honderich say about hard determinism?
    1. A“What has this boy to do with it? ... He did not make himself.”
    2. BWill is “no more than effects of other equally necessitated events.” A ‘black thing’ (Mill: an ‘incubus’)
    3. CLocked room. Tabula rasa.
    4. DLaplace’s Demon.
  3. 3What did Locke say about hard determinism?
    1. A“What has this boy to do with it? ... He did not make himself.”
    2. BWill is “no more than effects of other equally necessitated events.” A ‘black thing’ (Mill: an ‘incubus’)
    3. CLocked room. Tabula rasa.
    4. DLaplace’s Demon.
  4. 4What did Laplace say about hard determinism?
    1. A“What has this boy to do with it? ... He did not make himself.”
    2. BWill is “no more than effects of other equally necessitated events.” A ‘black thing’ (Mill: an ‘incubus’)
    3. CLocked room. Tabula rasa.
    4. DLaplace’s Demon.
  5. 5What did Stephen Hawking say about hard determinism?
    1. A“What has this boy to do with it? ... He did not make himself.”
    2. BWill is “no more than effects of other equally necessitated events.” A ‘black thing’ (Mill: an ‘incubus’)
    3. CLocked room. Tabula rasa.
    4. DLaplace’s Demon.
    5. EDue to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, Newtonian physics is not quite correct, so Laplace's Demon is wrong. But there are instead determined probabilities, not free will.
  6. 6What did Calvin say about theological determinism?
    1. APre destination, damned and elect.
    2. BGod decides who will be free – goodness only from God since fall.
  7. 7What did Augustine say about theological determinism?
    1. AGod decides who will be free – goodness only from God since fall.
    2. BPre destination, damned and elect.
  8. 8What did Hume say about soft determinism?
    1. ALiberty of spontaneity – ability to act according to will, even if this is itself determined.
    2. B“Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.”
    3. CNecessity does not preclude freedom – is a vital part of determinism. Fatalism wrong e.g. Oedipus.
    4. DInevitable =/= determined. Omniscience gives meaning to free will.
    5. EReason not elsewhere in nature – humans special. Freedom needed for morality.
  9. 9What did Schopenhauer say about soft determinism?
    1. ALiberty of spontaneity – ability to act according to will, even if this is itself determined.
    2. B“Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.”
    3. CNecessity does not preclude freedom – is a vital part of determinism. Fatalism wrong e.g. Oedipus.
    4. DReason not elsewhere in nature – humans special. Freedom needed for morality.
    5. EInevitable =/= determined. Omniscience gives meaning to free will.
  10. 10What did Mill say about soft determinism?
    1. ALiberty of spontaneity – ability to act according to will, even if this is itself determined.
    2. BNecessity does not preclude freedom – is a vital part of determinism. Fatalism wrong e.g. Oedipus.
    3. C“Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.”
    4. DInevitable =/= determined. Omniscience gives meaning to free will.
    5. EReason not elsewhere in nature – humans special. Freedom needed for morality.

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Quiz on Ethics - Free Will and Determinism, created by maxholme on 12/06/2015.
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