CJ 210 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Intelligent Design, Hard Determinism, Units Of Paper Quantity
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Outcomes are determined by past and present events, whereas fatalism does not rely on past and present events. Evidently, they had it in them : in the fourth meditation, descartes argues that the will is infinite (unlimited and free): Evaluate its plausibility: our will is free and determinism is false, plausibility, explain hume"s theory of freedom. Hume suggests necessary and sufficient conditions for freedom. Which shows they are not sufficient: are the following propositions equivalents in meaning? (i) s did a of her own free will; (ii) S was free to not do a: ch 12, a definition can be defective because it fails to provide necessary conditions, or because it fails to provide sufficient conditions. This is different from the second order desire theory because sod allows irrational desires to be a part of functioning free will: weather vane has a function b/c it was designed by people to do something.