If you think of life and existence in general as a canvas, meaning all of time included simultaneously, the past, present and future. Within that canvas lie certain sets of options(choices) which are available to us at any given moment. The path that we found ourselves are predetermined by factors we had no control over. Your genetic make up, for instance, you had nothing to do with. You can’t take credit for not having the brain of a psychopath, the brain of the mentally disabled person, genetic predisposition to cancer and you name it. The actions of others impact the options (choices) available to you-the actions of those around affects your will because it can change the choices that are available to you at any given moment. If certain …show more content…
Your geography and you beliefs determined greatly who you are as a person but no one had a choice on that during their formative years. So there are so many factors and causes that affect freewill that’s not under the individual’s control. Let’s acknowledge that. In the context of life being a canvas you can visualize your life as a specific and unique individual pathway on the canvas of life with with different choices(options) available as one moves through time. At each moment in time, different choices are available to you within said predetermined path. The pathway is already predetermined because all time exist at all time all the time, but within each moment you’re are presented with certain set of choices (different set of choices are available at different point in time). These choices range from good to evil as far as their impacts are concerned. So this is why it makes sense to say true freewill doesn’t exist but we can make choices within the predetermined path we find ourselves in. If you think about it from a believer point of view, it’s basically God created everyone differently (predetermined path), with different gifts (drives) manifested through choices available to us at each moment in time. Evil and good are natural forces in this world which
Fate works in mysterious ways, everyone makes choices out of their own free will which affects their
It also depends on how we explain free will; free will in this case is how one acts out on their own will. Our genetics can determine how we can act. When our
The way people decide and the actions they do determine how their life goes. The forces outside of our control do all the controlling in our destiny in my opinion. Anything at any given moment, anything could happen to you, whether it's good or bad. The point is that we don't know what's expected, so that means we have no control of what lies ahead of our lives. In ‘ A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines introduces a variety of characters with different ways of life.
Fate can be thought as life being predetermined for the entirety of your days. From the early writings of Homer, specifically in the poem, The Iliad, there is a clear representation of whether it is free will or fate after all. Although we may never know whether there is a predetermined path or rather just free, it can only make one wonder. For most Greek Mythology, it is been evident that most of people’s decisions were not free will but rather fate itself. While people think they have free will, it may just be fate after all.
The actions made in the past can determine the course of your life. Even the choices that weren't your own.
The first matter to be noted is that this view is in no way in contradiction to science. Free will is a natural phenomenon, something that emerged in nature with the emergence of human beings, with their
Do we humans have control of our lives destiny or are humans controlled by outside forces? In conclusion, freewill is what determines someone’s destiny because everything you do reflects you and the people around you. There are paths in life and you choose what path you want to go
Do I have free will, or is every action I make predetermined? This question has concerned me for a long while. It has been the topic of many family dinner conversations, a topic of research, and a question in many prayers. I believe that this question concerns many people, since finding an answer has been the source of much literature, thinking, and religion. I have, after much thought, arrived at the conclusion of Soft Determinism - the Principle of Universal Causality, that for everything that exists or happens there is a cause, is true, but this principle is compatible with the Condition of Free Action. By Condition of Free Action I mean that a person is in control of his own actions (is the source of them) and
Ostrowski a political analyst from the Cato institute, states that drug laws greatly increase the price of illegal drugs, often forcing users to steal to get the money to obtain them. Although difficult to estimate the black market prices of heroin and cocaine, these drugs appear to be many times greater than their pharmaceutical prices. For example, a hospital-dispensed dose of morphine (a drug from which heroin is relatively easily derived) costs only pennies; cocaine costs about a dollar per ounce. It is frequently estimated that a good percentage of all property crime in the United States is committed by drug users so that they can maintain their habits. That amounts to about four million
Almost all cases of infection by N. fowleri have proven fatal; however, the experimental breast cancer drug miltefosine has proven effective in the few cases of survival. In addition, patients are placed into a state of clinically induced hypothermia which works to combat the heat-loving ameba.
When people think we are pre-destined, they think everything that happens right now happens because of events that had happened in the past, which also means that the future is already set in stone, that everything happens because of some other outcome. Free beings means humans are free to go ahead and make any choice they want to without being forced to do something else. In my personal opinion if we were determined human beings wouldn’t the whole approach on morality just be irrelevant? Because why would anyone care if anything is morally right or wrong because it was going to happen anyways. Just something so serious like a rape or murder wouldn’t matter, because it was already going to happen. One question I have about free will is that not every action we do, or every little thing our body does from breathing to blinking, we do not tell ourselves to do that, our body automatically does that for us. But the voluntary actions, we do have the freedom to choose what we do want to do. So in my opinion I do not think we are point black free beings or determined beings. I can see both sides in the argument. I do also believe in some aspect that things do happen for a reason, but ONLY from the decisions we make from our own free
Life is not defined by fate, we do not have a predetermined outcome. Life is not defined by chance, not everything is made from luck. While they can play factors, they are not the most important factors in our lives. The most important factor is our own free will. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlet is given
Destiny is no matter of chance. It’s a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved,” quoted by William Jennings Bryan. One of the most debated questions in history is whether our lives are ruled by fate or by own choice. William Shakespeare brings this question into play in his production Romeo and Juliet. Although fate does seam to be ruling over every situation, I believe that choice has more to do with this story then it’s really credited to. Even in the opening lines, this play drills into your head the inevitable outcome of the two lover’s deaths. When the chorus uses the phrase Star crossed lovers (I, 1,6) it clearly shows William Shakespeare’s thoughts on what killed Romeo and Juliet. This
Free will can be defined as the power to make our own choices and decisions. It is greatly influence by our type of government, laws, and our own moral decisions. Utopian, authoritarian, and libertarian societies express different views on how individuals can make their own choices and what or who effects their decisions. Most people wish for a perfect utopian society where everything is ideal including laws, government, and our social conditions. However, a perfect utopia is just a dream one can never truly receive. An authoritarian view of government views the people in its society as incapable of governing themselves and making appropriate decisions. Therefore, they believe the ruling authority should make all the decisions for the people of that society. Many libertarians are against this idea and believe we should have little government control or oppose the existence of a government altogether. There are many theories on free will including the deterministic and nondeterministic theories. Compatibilist, individuals that believe their free will is controlled by a sovereign God, share the belief that free will and determinism go hand in hand (MzEllen, 2010). Free will and punishment are expressed differently throughout every society and are relative to our culture, morals, and government.
The above may seem complicated at a first glance. All I am saying really is that destiny can be split into two belief concepts that support each other. The first is that all destinies past and future have been written and nothing you do will change or alter what God has destined for you. The second is that within this destiny many things are written in a manner that allows freewill to dictate much of the events.