freedom and determinism

Question 1

○ This harm cannot be avoided, it is inevitable. Harm is a determination of a deterministic point of view.

Answer 1

Daniel Dennet’s Harm Avoidance

Question 2

■ Freedom allows us to
make ethical choices in our life and be responsible for our actions. Because of our freedom, we are responsible for our own actions. This is where our questions come in.

Answer 2

Moral autonomy:

Question 3

■ Allows us to pursue
our goals and aspirations in life. We speak of the respect we give to other people and the respect we receive from other people.

Answer 3

Human dignity:

Question 4

Physical freedom:

○ You can make decisions for
your body. You have the freedom to choose what to do with your body.

Answer 4

Personal Autonomy

Question 5

Physical freedom:

○ you are free to explore your
surroundings, you are free to
move and be mobile.

Answer 5

Freedom of Movement

Question 6

Physical freedom:

○ You have the freedom not to
be encased in jail.

Answer 6

Freedom from imprisonment

Question 7

Psychological freedom:

○ you are free to think,
imagine, and form your own
opinions independently.

Answer 7

Freedom of thought

Question 8

Psychological freedom

○ you can let out your
emotions and showcase how you feel.

Answer 8

Emotional freedom

Question 9

Psychological freedom:

○ you are free to engage in
any intellectual activity or activity that feeds your mind. You are free to interact with other people in the hopes of putting awareness in yourself.

Answer 9

Intellectual freedom

Question 10

moral freedom:

○ you are free to make ethical
choices in life

Answer 10

Freedom of conscience

Question 11

moral freedom

○ you are free to choose what
you want to believe in.

Answer 11

Freedom of Religion

Question 12

moral freedom:

○ you are free to make moral
decisions

Answer 12

Moral decision making

Question 13

Social freedom

○ You are free to join groups
and associate with other
people.

Answer 13

Freedom of association

Question 14

Political freedom
○ You are free to protest as a
group.

Answer 14

Freedom of assembly

Question 14

Social freedom

○ you are free to express
yourself through speech without censorship. You have the freedom to express your thoughts without feeling censored.

Answer 14

Freedom of speech

Question 15

Social freedom

you are free to practice the
culture you belong to. You are free to practice the ways of living that are manifested by your culture.

Answer 15

● Cultural freedom

Question 16

Political freedom

○ You are free to choose your
leaders, you are free to vote
and participate in elections

Answer 16

Democratic participation

Question 17

Political freedom

○ you are free to provide
information and express wihtout censor

Answer 17

Freedom of the press

Question 18

Existential freedom

○ you are free to be authentic
or to be true to yourself.

Answer 18

Authenticity

Question 18

Existential freedom

○ You are free to create or find
your own purpose and
meaning in life.

Answer 18

Freedom of meaning

Question 19

Existential freedom

you are free to be responsible for you are responsible for your own actions in life.

Answer 19

Freedom of responsibility

Question 20

● entails the notion of acting freely in alignment with one’s subjective wishes.

Answer 20

SUBJECTIVISTIC

Question 21

Emphasizes individual desire without conside

Answer 21

pOPULIST

Question 21

● Use of freedom in excessive reliance on faith.

Answer 21

TRANSCENDENTAL

Question 22

Implies that freedom can be quantified or measured

Answer 22

scientific

Question 23

Emphasizes individual desire without consideration for broader societal context

Answer 23

POPULIST

Question 24

● A philosophical position believing that all events, including human actions and choices, are determined by causal laws.

Answer 24

DETERMINISM

Question 25

Every event has a cause and this cause determines future events.

Answer 25

DETERMINISM

Question 26

○ Since all events are already
determined and inevitable,
free will is an illusion.

○ It says that we as human
persons cannot do anything because our path has already been planned out.

○ There is already a designated path for you to take.

Answer 26

Hard or incompatibilism

Question 27

○ Even though external
factors are present, we humans still have a degree of free will.

○ You also have that designated path to take but how you’re going to take that path depends on you, this is where free will comes in.

Answer 27

Soft or compatibilism

Question 28

● Proposed atomism

Answer 28

LEUCIPPUS and DEMOCRITUS

Question 29

The theory of —– says
that everything in the world is made up of atoms and these atoms cause the events around us.

Answer 29

Atomism

Question 30

● Proposed demon thought experiment.

Answer 30

PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE

Question 31

○ There is an entity called the demon who knows or has been in the past and knows the future.
○ This is an entity that knows what is happening in the present.

Answer 31

demon thought experiment.

Question 32

○ provides a sense of order
and predictability, everything is consistent

Answer 32

Causal consistency

Question 33

○ theories such as Newtonian
physics.

Answer 33

Scientific basis

Question 34

○ Natural laws govern the
behavior of all things.

Answer 34

Compatibility with natural laws

Question 35

○ Unmeasurable subatomic levels, challenging strict determinism. If they cannot be measured, it proposes the idea that determinism is a false idea.

Answer 35

Quantum indeterminacy

Question 36

○ Individuals might not be genuinely responsible for their actions.

Answer 36

Human agency

Question 37

● An individual‘s capacity to make moral decisions and be morally responsible based on their own values, principles, and conscience.

Answer 37

Moral Agency

Question 38

● A set of good moral qualities, habits, and character traits that enable individuals to act morally and virtuously.

Answer 38

Moral Virtue