Choice?
 

Do we really have are own free will, or are our 'choices' just illusions determined by pre-existing circumstances.

Re: Choice?
 

Get a new name,

stabn

Re: Choice?
 

gotta love philisophical questions that cant be answered


My vote is "both". Its all predetirmed, but I still decided what I wanted when it was time to decide, so it appears like free will to me, which is exactly the same thing.

Re: Choice?
 

Are you suggesting that my name lacks any sort of credibility or that I'm just a loser?

Re: Choice?
 

The problem with free will (though I believe in it) is reconciling it with the societal compulsion to agree on a universal morality.

My B.A. in Philosophy is worth about 75 cents on a good day.

Read Sartre, particularly "Existentialism Is a Humanism," for more on this topic. Also Kant. But Kant was a jackass.

Re: Choice?
 

huh? All I see are boobs.

Re: Choice?
 

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gotta love philisophical questions that cant be answered


My vote is "both". Its all predetirmed, but I still decided what I wanted when it was time to decide, so it appears like free will to me, which is exactly the same thing.

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But is your 'choice' to choose 'free will' not determined by every single moment that led up to your 'choosing'. I understand your argument for both, but am surprised that given only the two 'choices', you leaned towards free will.

Re: Choice?
 

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But is your 'choice' to choose 'free will' not determined by every single moment that led up to your 'choosing'.

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No

Re: Choice?
 

as far as we are capable of determining, we have free will. that'll have to be good enough.

Re: Choice?
 

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But is your 'choice' to choose 'free will' not determined by every single moment that led up to your 'choosing'.

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No

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Than you're saying your 'decision' was random?