Freewill and determinism conflict (choice)
Date Submitted: 06/20/2003 06:48:37
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 4 pages (1085 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 4 pages (1085 words)
We ought then regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its previous state and the
cause of the one which is to follow. An intelligence knowing at a given instant of time all the
forces operating in nature, as well as the position at that instant of all things of which the
universe consists, would be able to comprehend the motions of the largest bodies in the universe
and those of …
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…going to happen. A person's biography was
written before he or she was born, so there's no sense in making an effort. Whatever will
be will be, whatever the person do or don't do. So then why even bother getting out of
bed?
Anthony Flew, Western Philosophy (New York: Bobb_Merrill Company, 1971), p. 223.
Thomas Ellis Katen, Doing Philosophy (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1973), p. 321.
Ibid., p. 386.
Ibid., p. 315.
Spinoza. The Ethics. Part 2, proposition 35, sholium.
Ibid., proposition 48.
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