Free Will And Free Choice

In this paper I will present an argument against free will and then I will defend a response to that argument. Free will is defined as having the ability to make our own choices. Some will argue that all of our decisions have already been dictated by our desires therefore we never actually truly make our own choices. The purpose of this paper is to defend the argument that we have free will by attacking the premise that states we have no control over what we desire. I will defeat this premise by showing how one does have control over his/her desires through the idea of self-control. I will then defend my argument against likely rebuttals that state that there is still no way to control our desires proving that we do have free will.

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

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Free Will is the capacity of acting without the pressures of fate and the ability to act because of one’s discretion. It is an idea that most believe in, because it means that you are in control

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Humans are bond to make choices everyday, from trivial things such as “What should I have for lunch today?” to choices that hold significance such as ‘Which program should I apply for?”. I believe this thinking process is caused by the fact that humans are granted with an ability called the “Free will”, therefore they are able to make their own decisions based on the conscious mind.

It has been debated over centuries whether us humans have control over our destiny, and if we are really able to decide on our own. The controversy between free will and determinism has been argued about for years. If we look into a dictionary, free will is define as the power given to human beings to be able to make free choices that is unconstrained by external circumstances or a force such as fate or divine intervention. Determinism is defined as a philosophical doctrine that every event, act, and decision is the inescapable consequence of antecedents that are independent of the human will. Determinism states that humans have no free will to choose what they wish. Due to this fact, contemporary philosophers cannot agree whether free will does exist, let alone it be a divine influence.

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"A human can very well do what he wants, but cannot will what he wants."- Einstein. We, people, consider ourselves as a free being as we think we are capable of making our choices as per our need and

Free will gives us power to make choices, and engage in actions that originate with ourselves. It also relates to intentionality,Valuntariness, and responsibility. Free will is a natural and social science that continues to catalogue the various biological, psychological, and sociological in influences on our choices and actions, we are left to critically examine the degree to which our thoughts, feelings, and actions are in fact, free or voluntary. Free will is compatible with determinism as in the sovereignty of god.Free will affected by human nature, however retains the ability to choose contrary his nature and desires. In free will always believe only on what is true, and not in false propositions, don't believe on determinism unless it