PHILOS 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Fetus, John Rawls, Supererogation
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Determinism: events at time t+1 are completely necessitated by events at time t events from the past, cause and effect look at drawings in notebook. Determinism can also be used in relation to behavior: such as the fixed action pattern of a certain organism seen with wasp and egg example. Nothing happens without a cause, the causes are all there, they determine future events. We have no free will, everything is causally necessitated by previous events; they both can"t be true determinism and free will all thoughts and desires are causally necessary by previous events evidence for this: libet (philosopher) Instant they move their finger they have to remember where the arrow on the clock was. It takes about 500 milliseconds to record the time. If determinism is true, then we have no free will and so we are not morally responsible. If determinism is not true, then we have no free will and so we are not morally responsible.
