Deck 1

Question 1

What are Libertarians

Answer 1

Those who assert that we have free will, that there are some actions in which the individual is the sole cause

Question 2

What are Compatibilists

Answer 2

Those who hold that although everything is determined we can still be free as long as we act voluntarily

Question 3

What is autonomy

Answer 3

A persons’ rational capacity for self-governance or self-determination

Question 4

Aristotle gives an argument that one should be a libertarian about freedom and moral responsibility

Answer 4

True

Question 5

From casual determinism, many argue that we do not have free will

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Autonomy refers to a persons rational capacity for self governance

Answer 6

True

Question 7

What is Free will

Answer 7

The freedom and ability to choose what to do

Question 8

What are the sources of a persons moral awareness in telling right from wrong

Answer 8

Hume believes in a moral sense and innate faculty of sympathy.
We may learn it from our social context.
Religions present people with moral rules.

Question 9

What is Hard Determinism

Answer 9

The view that because determinism is true we have no free will

Question 10

What is reductionism

Answer 10

The view that to understand a complex entity one should analyse it to the smallest component parts of which it is made

Question 11

What is scientific determinism

Answer 11

A form of hard determinism that holds that all events are determined by antecedent events and states of affairs so there can be no free will

Question 12

What is psychological determinism

Answer 12

A form of hard determinism according to skinner all behaviour is the result of genetic and environmental conditions and all human actions are conditioned by the good/bad consequences of previous decisions so there can be no free will

Question 13

What is theological determinism

Answer 13

A form of hard determinism according to which the future is determined by gods foreknowledge so there can be no free will

Question 14

What did Calvin argue

Answer 14

Gods omniscience means that some are eternally ordained to glory through the sheer will of god and the rest are ordained to eternal torment

Question 15

What are strengths of hard determinism

Answer 15

It is logically correct so is inescapable.
Religious logic shows that if there is a god, we still have no free will.
Backed up by scientific reasoning.