![]() ![]() Spinoza is arguing that our lives are basically the result of various causes going back in a chain of infinite regress. "the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause." This also means that we cannot possibly be held responsible for our actions seeing as we have no control over them. What we do is not in our control, even if we think it is. Hard determinists accept that our lives are completely determined by other factors and that we subsequently have no genuine freedom over our lives. Hard determinism is at one end of the scale. Or you could use this John Locke quote, which draws from his analogy of a man being a locked room that he does not know is locked (and thus assumes he can leave whenever he likes): "Determinism is true, compatibilism is false." ![]() So if you get the age-old question of assessing whether they are compatible or whether one or the other is right or wrong, the structure is pretty easy.įor almost any free will and determinism essay, starting off with the following quote would make sense to highlight a love of hard determinism and a seething hatred of soft determinism, courtesy of Honderich: there's basically one group who love free will and hate determinism, one group who love determinism and hate free will and a sit-on-the-fence group who say both can work together. Free will and determinism is one of the larger topics of the A2 ethics course but it's quite straight-forward. ![]()
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