Free Will and Determinism Flashcards
Hard - John Hospers
‘It’s all a matter of luck.’
Hard - Clarence Darrow
‘they were diseased of mind, and that they were of tender age.’
‘Not for money, not for spite; not for hate. They killed him because they were made that way.’
‘He was not his own father; he was not his own mother; he was not his own grandparents.’
Hard - Thomas Ash
‘Free Will comes from a pre-scientific worldview.’
‘well oiled machine.’
‘And this near-determinism, which makes our actions 99% predictable rather than 100% predictable, is surely little comfort to an indeterminist.’
Behaviouralism - B F Skinner
‘We are … certain collateral products of those histories.;
‘It is a mistake to support that the whole issue is how to cree man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled’
‘We must delegate control of the population as a whole to specialists - to police, priests, teachers, therapies, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies’
Jean Calvin
‘The atonement is sufficient for al and efficient for the elect.’
Soft - Hume
‘A person’s action is free if, and only if, had the person wanted to do otherwise than the act, the person would have had the power to do otherwise than the act.’
‘It is universally allowed, that matter … is actuated by a necessary force, and that every natural effect is so precisely determined by the energy of its cause, that no other effect, in such particular circumstances, could possibly have resulted from it…’
People accept that casual necessity applies to the ‘voluntary actions of men’, agreeing that everyone has a human nature as they ‘always produce the same actions’ being the ‘source of all the actions… which have been observed among mankind.’
‘a power of acting or not acting, according to the determination of their free will.’
‘All laws being founded on rewards and punishments, it is supposed as a fundamental principle, that these motives have a regular and uniform influence on the mind.’
Soft - Locke
‘So that idea of liberty is, the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby wither of them is preferred to the other: where either of them is not in the power if the agent to be produced by him according to his volition, there he is not at liberty’ that agent is under necessity.’
Ted Holderich
principle spokesman for determinism - confronted the consequences of determinism
‘dismayed’
‘origination’
‘life hopes’
