Understanding Human Freedom Flashcards

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It is hard to say if freedom really does exist. Some philosophers could spend a lifetime wondering if there’s freedom or none.

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Man and Freedom

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True or False: is the object of the will is good?

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True

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True or False: There’s a freedom because there is the feeling of freedom.

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True

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Our mental ability to make choices and do actions to carry out these choices

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Will

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What are the 3 main philosophical positions on the possibility of human freedom?

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-Hard Determinism
-Libertarianism
-Compatibilism

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It accepts determinism and further believes that determinism and freedom are incompatible, they cannot be both true.

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Hard determinism

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It rejects determinism. It accepts that there are certain events in the world are caused and thus are determined, there are also events that are not human choices because it cause by the mind of the person or power of its will.

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Libertarianism

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It is neutral to the truth of determinism. Human are free if he is not forced, compelled or constrained to do actions to satisfy their desire or carry out their intentions.

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Compatibilism

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9
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What are the 2 definition of freedom?

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-Natural freedom
-Social freedom

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Our choices are not determined

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Natural freedom

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What are the 2 types of human action?

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-Voluntary action
-Involuntary action

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It is not determined.

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Voluntary action

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It is determined.

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Involuntary action

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What is do you call if human freedom is the absence of force, constrains?

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Social freedom

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Enables us to choose the kind of action that we would like to perform

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Freedom

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What are the 2 types of accountability in assessing right and wrong?

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-Legal accountability
-Moral responsibility

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Application of legal standards, it benefits and punishment from God. Coincides with moral accountability if laws embodies moral principles, which does not always happen.

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Legal Accountability

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Application of moral standards (moral blame and moral praise)

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Moral responsibility

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What are the conditions of accountability?

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-Intentionally condition
-Knowledge condition

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If the person has the intention of doing the action, and he/she performed the action to carry out the intention.

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Intentionally Condition

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If the person knows and is capable of knowing that the action he/she is thinking of performing is right or wrong.

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Knowledge Condition

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Being able to do what you want.

23
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Being free to act and choose, as you will

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Being an agent capable of influencing the world

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It is the source of once own action
Free will
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What is the belief that everything in the universe including all human actions and choices has a cause?
Philosophical Determinism
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Nature-Nurture Study of human behavior All human behavior thoughts of feelings are inevitable outcome of complex psychological laws describing cause and effects relationships in human behavior.
Psychological Determinism
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The belief that the causal chain be traced back to an uncaused, cause and this is GOD
Theological Determinism
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What is the ethical concept operative when we are faced with moral choice?
Moral self
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A major proponent of this view was Rene Descartes.
Interactionism
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It is being the view taken by most people on the causal mind-body relation, is regarded as the “default position” on this problem
Interactionism
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Where one mental state causes another mental state
Mental to mental
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Where a mental state cause a bodily state
Mental to physical
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Physical state causes a mental state
Physical to mental
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Where a physical state causes another physical state
Physical to physical
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It is reinforcement can be mold behavior
Total Determinism
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Being able to do what you want
Surface freedom
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True or False: We need to be free in order to be responsible for our actions; our practices of praise and blame presuppose that we are free.
True
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True or False: Freedom is important because it enables us to exist without being frightened of or subjected to oppression by others who would use force or compulsion to enslave us.
True
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What is the kind of determinism that Something is wrong with a society that causes bad behavior.
Sociological Determinism
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If God knows everything, every choice and every consequence of that choice was already known.
Theological Determinism
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This pertains to the belief that actions are predetermined based on one’s most urgent need.
Physiological Determinism
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Who said that “There is no such things as “I was born this way,” we exist first.
Jean Paul Sartre
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What structured Freedom that is for Historicity and Structure?
Skinner
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What structured freedom is free-questioning?
Sartre
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True or False: Man is not a freedom within structure
False