PHIL100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Existence Precedes Essence, Existentialism, Speciesism
3 Jan 2020
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Indifference of the universe: no providence, no care, loss of objective values, no ultimate meaning. Compatibilism: defined by the idea that humans can be fully determined and still be set free, one could be both determined and morally responsible, one is responsible for one"s actions only if one is free. Incompatibilism: humans cannot be both free and determined. If determinism is the case, then no one is morally responsible. Libertarianism: the belief that humans have significant free will, humans often are morally responsible, all libertarians are incompatibilists, all existentialists are libertarians. It"s hard to see how we can be responsible for actions external to us. Hard determinism: no one is morally responsible, humans are determined, all hard determinists are determinists and incompatibilists. If determinism is true, then our actions are the consequences of events in the remote past. It"s not up to us what went on before we were born: the consequences of past events are not up to us.
