U2: Human Freedom

Question 1

T/F:
There is freedom because there is a feeling of freedom.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

T/F:
The object of the will is good.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

T/F:
Even unconditional good cannot stop freedom of the will.

Answer 3

False;
Only unconditional good (God, life, absolute will) can stop the freedom of the will.

Question 4

T/F:
Absolute freedom due to ignorance nullifies freedom of choice.

Answer 4

True;
Ex. deception
(If you are deceived, it is not your fault.)

Question 5

How do we exercise freedom through reflective analysis?

Answer 5

1. Self-possession
2. Freedom of choice
   a. questioning
   b. distancing oneself
   c. valuing

Question 6

What concept states that reinforcement can mold one’s behavior?

Answer 6

Total Determinism
(B.F. Skinner)

Question 7

Ways that the structures influence choices

Answer 7

1. genetic, biological, and physical structures
2. environmental structures (culture, psychological dev’t)
3. external forces demanding the creation of needs and values

Question 8

concept that states that we cannot change our past

Answer 8

Historicity

Question 9

Identify the concept:
being able to do what you want

Answer 9

surface freedom

Question 10

Identify the concept:
being free to act and choose as you will

Answer 10

surface freedom

Question 11

T/F:
We have to be responsible for our actions, even without freedom.

Answer 11

False;
we have to be free in order to be responsible for our actions.

Question 12

T/F:
Our practices of praise and blame presuppose that we are free.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Identify the concept:
Something is wrong with society which causes bad behavior.

Answer 13

Sociological determinism

Question 14

Identify the concept:
The “all-knowing” characteristic of God contradicts the idea of human free will.

Answer 14

Theological Determinism

Question 15

Identify the concept:
If God knows everything, then every choice and every consequence of that choice was already known.

Answer 15

Theological Determinism

Question 16

Identify the concept:
pertains to the belief that actions are pre-determined based on one’s most urgent need

Answer 16

Psychological Determinism

Question 17

T/F:
Limitations of historicity include questioning, hesitating, reflecting, and challenging.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

How did Jean-Paul Sartre define man in the concept of absolute freedom?

Answer 18

1. structureless
2. for itself
3. transparent
4. continuously projecting itself

Question 19

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.”

Answer 19

Absolute Freedom

Question 20

T/F:
Sartre, against determinism, states that existence is resistance, and freedom is the struggle against what is given.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

T/F:
Sartre, against determinism, states that man is tied down by his past or the choices he made in his past.

Answer 21

False;
not tied down

Question 22

T/F:
Sartre, against determinism, states that there is a limitation to one’s identity.

Answer 22

False;
no limitation
(my own identity, my own essence)

Question 23

T/F:
Sartre, against determinism, states that man has the ability to question, to negate, to achieve a distance from necessity.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

T/F:
Behaviorism and free will cannot join together.

Answer 24

True

Question 25

offerings of the world; may or may not be taken

Answer 25

structures

Question 26

T/F:
Man is a freedom within structure.

Answer 26

True

Question 27

T/F:
At the end of all freedom is a court sentence.

Answer 27

True