U2: Human Freedom Flashcards
T/F:
There is freedom because there is a feeling of freedom.
True
T/F:
The object of the will is good.
True
T/F:
Even unconditional good cannot stop freedom of the will.
False;
Only unconditional good (God, life, absolute will) can stop the freedom of the will.
T/F:
Absolute freedom due to ignorance nullifies freedom of choice.
True;
Ex. deception
(If you are deceived, it is not your fault.)
How do we exercise freedom through reflective analysis?
- Self-possession
- Freedom of choice
a. questioning
b. distancing oneself
c. valuing
What concept states that reinforcement can mold one’s behavior?
Total Determinism
(B.F. Skinner)
Ways that the structures influence choices
- genetic, biological, and physical structures
- environmental structures (culture, psychological dev’t)
- external forces demanding the creation of needs and values
concept that states that we cannot change our past
Historicity
Identify the concept:
being able to do what you want
surface freedom
Identify the concept:
being free to act and choose as you will
surface freedom
T/F:
We have to be responsible for our actions, even without freedom.
False;
we have to be free in order to be responsible for our actions.
T/F:
Our practices of praise and blame presuppose that we are free.
True
Identify the concept:
Something is wrong with society which causes bad behavior.
Sociological determinism
Identify the concept:
The “all-knowing” characteristic of God contradicts the idea of human free will.
Theological Determinism
Identify the concept:
If God knows everything, then every choice and every consequence of that choice was already known.
Theological Determinism
Identify the concept:
pertains to the belief that actions are pre-determined based on one’s most urgent need
Psychological Determinism
T/F:
Limitations of historicity include questioning, hesitating, reflecting, and challenging.
True
How did Jean-Paul Sartre define man in the concept of absolute freedom?
- structureless
- for itself
- transparent
- continuously projecting itself
Identify the concept:
“Man does not exist first in order to be free subsequently; there is no difference between the being of man and his being free.”
Absolute Freedom
T/F:
Sartre, against determinism, states that existence is resistance, and freedom is the struggle against what is given.
True
T/F:
Sartre, against determinism, states that man is tied down by his past or the choices he made in his past.
False;
not tied down
T/F:
Sartre, against determinism, states that there is a limitation to one’s identity.
False;
no limitation
(my own identity, my own essence)
T/F:
Sartre, against determinism, states that man has the ability to question, to negate, to achieve a distance from necessity.
True
T/F:
Behaviorism and free will cannot join together.
True
offerings of the world; may or may not be taken
structures
T/F:
Man is a freedom within structure.
True
T/F:
At the end of all freedom is a court sentence.
True
