PHIL100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Incompatibilism, Compatibilism, Hard Determinism
31 Oct 2017
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The determinist thesis: single past-> one possible future. Compatibilism: possible to be both free and determined. Conditions of compatibilism: doing what you want to do, flows out of character, actions caused by the right kind of causes. Incompatibilism: compatibilism is wrong, cannot be both free and determined, must be one or the other. If you couldn"t have done otherwise => not free. Hard determinism: incompatibilism is true: determinism is false. 2: people are free, determinism is true. 2: people are not free(people are not responsible) incompatibilism is true. Soft determinism: determinism is true, compatibilism is true, people are free and determined. 2: consequences of past events are not up to us. If determinism were true => caused by consequences of past events. It"s not up to us what went on before we were born. If freedom is genuine => present actions are up to us.
