PHIL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Omniscience, Rationality, Presupposition
2 Dec 2016
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If you like my work please help and donate to my business! Everything is necessitated: libertarianism: some human actions are chosen and performed by the agent without there being any sufficient condition or cause of the action prior to the action itself, determinist- all actions are determined. Proximate cause- what makes the actions a free and responsible one. Prior cause: set of events and circumstances that led to the proximate cause. What are 2 misconceptions of determinism: a philosophy that states that every event, act, and decision is the inevitable consequence of what happened before. There is no freedom of choice: 2 misconceptions, determinism means that people do not make choices. Determinists do not deny the existence of choices. They just maintain that actions are determined by past causes: 2) determinism means that our choices make no difference, the difference lies in the interpretation of the experience of choice, not in experience itself.
