Free will

question is do we determine what happens to us (free will) or is everything is predetermined (destiny)? Do you make your own choices or do you let life happen as it is? You always hear people talk about them being “destined to be with this person” or they “are destined to do this or be this or even do this career”. If we don’t make certain choices we will never become anything so how is that destiny? Even if there is a such thing as destiny, we have the free will to change it. Body Paragraph 1:

do not have free will, then that suggests that we lack any power or control over anything, therefore, nothing is up to us. This would impair our view and perception of our society, community and the world. The metaphysical issue of free will is if the initial conditions are fixed and all the laws of nature are deterministic, then the resulting outcome that will happen thereafter is also fixed, because of the laws of nature as well as the initial conditions. So do we actually have free will? This question

problem of free will pertains to the conflicting definitions of free will and determinism. Free will can be defined as the freedom to decide one’s next state; having free will means that one’s choices do not depend on past events. Oppositely, determinism states that every condition in the present depends on past events and all conditions are entirely based on physical laws. Determinism thus claims that there is only one predetermined way a given agent will act. Based on the definitions of free will and

1 Introduction Are we free? All of us have a clear sense that we are free. We believe that our decisions are wholly our own, a result of our own reasoning and analysis. According to David Hume, the question of the nature of free will is “the most contentious question of metaphysics.” If Hume is correct, understanding of free will is a complex task indeed. At best to say that an agent has free will is to say that the agent has the ability and power to choose his or her course of action without constraint

This theodicy suggests that God gave humans free will to make moral decisions and as a result of free will there is evil and suffering. God wanted us to freely love him and of course with this free will comes also the decision to turn away from God. This freedom is the only way that we can truly love God, without it humans could not directly choose God and his will, we

Free will is something which all human’s posses. However, if God has knowledge of all the decisions we will ever make how can free will exist? Boethius confronts this question with his consolation of philosophy. He answers it by his definition of eternity and how it pertains to human’s free will. During this paper I will analyze Boethius’s argument as to why we retain our free will based upon his definition of eternity. Boethius says that God has the ability of foreknowledge and knows all things

The notion of free will has received a lot of attention in philosophy. Before we can examine it, however, we must understand some basic terminology. Determinism, when simply put, is the idea that everything including thoughts, decisions, and actions are predetermined before it even happens. Everything was determined to happen up to what kind of toast you ate for breakfast. There is no choice, randomness, and free will does not exist. Indeterminism is the opposite of determinism. It is a theory

determined by a supernatural power. What is free will choice? A free will choice is the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion. On the other hand , Free will is similar to choice which is like fate but deciding your own density by making your own decisions. The distinct between Fate and Free will is more like what Romeo and juliet went

Free Will I want to argue that there is indeed free will. In order to defend the position that free will means that human beings can cause some of what they do on their own; in other words, what they do is not explainable solely by references to factors that have influenced them. My thesis then, is that human beings are able to cause their own actions and they are therefore responsible for what they do. In a basic sense we are all original actors capable of making moves in the world. We

powerful forces and a theme of destiny vs human free will. Fate and free will are one of the many themes and philosophies present in the play Julius caesar. The role of fate along with Humans free will in this novel brings tragic events. “Men at some time are masters of their fates.”(I.ii.146-148), a quote said by cassius, explaining that men most of the time may not have control over their destinies. However characters in the play that follow their free will can create their own outcomes in their lives