Free Will
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What you see here is a page of my hypertext book Me, Looking for Meaning. Initially empty, it will slowly be filled with thoughts, notes, and quotes. One day, I will use them to write a coherent entry, similar to these completed pages. See this post to better understand my creative process. Thank you for your interest and patience! :)
What you see here is a page of my hypertext book Me, Looking for Meaning. Initially empty, it will slowly be filled with thoughts, notes, and quotes. One day, I will use them to write a coherent entry, similar to these completed pages. See this post to better understand my creative process. Thank you for your interest and patience! :)
Questions of determinism. How much can be go beyond our circumstances [add link]?
Free will may be possible within a certain limited range. For example, a person who experienced trauma may need to have a certain amount of pre-determined resiliency in order to survive this trauma. Within this range he can exercise by three will by deciding to pursue therapy or rejecting therapy. But it is possible to assume that some people who do not survive trauma just did not have the pre-determined resiliency in the first place.
we have to support the social order, the status quo. The need to support it is in all the individuals, and it allows people to have orderly living (albeit filled with issues that critical social scholars discuss). In this sense, it does not matter which order we support, but we do need to support some order. That is why any social chance meets do my g resistance from many people. Even though we recognize that society changes, so there are many possibilities configurations of social order, we still find it feet hard to let go of the social order that we live in.
I think that our actions are in many ways determined by our circumstance, but we do have some freedom to choose, even though we are choosing between a predetermined range of options. In this sense, perhaps I can give myself some credit, but not full credit for the way I act/think?
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Free will may be possible within a certain limited range. For example, a person who experienced trauma may need to have a certain amount of pre-determined resiliency in order to survive this trauma. Within this range he can exercise by three will by deciding to pursue therapy or rejecting therapy. But it is possible to assume that some people who do not survive trauma just did not have the pre-determined resiliency in the first place.
we have to support the social order, the status quo. The need to support it is in all the individuals, and it allows people to have orderly living (albeit filled with issues that critical social scholars discuss). In this sense, it does not matter which order we support, but we do need to support some order. That is why any social chance meets do my g resistance from many people. Even though we recognize that society changes, so there are many possibilities configurations of social order, we still find it feet hard to let go of the social order that we live in.
I think that our actions are in many ways determined by our circumstance, but we do have some freedom to choose, even though we are choosing between a predetermined range of options. In this sense, perhaps I can give myself some credit, but not full credit for the way I act/think?
About this project: Start page
