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What was the prophecy?
According to an ancient greek, a prophecy was told that he would kill his father and marry his mother
Where was he left as a child? Was this the start of his determinism?
In the best-known version of the myth, Oedipus was born to King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes. Laius wished to thwart the prophecy, so he sent a shepherd-servant to leave Oedipus to die on a mountainside.
Oedipus was the son of Laius and Jocasta, King and Queen of Thebes. Because of a prophecy that his son would kill him, Laius abandoned the child to die on Mount Cithaeron. A shepherd saved him and Oedipus was eventually brought to King Polybus and Queen Merope, who raised him as their own.
what do philosophers beelive about Oedipus?
There is no escaping fate- he coulsnt run away from the life that was already predetermined and set by his mother. The shadow.
Who came up with the theory that everything is determined? what did he argue?
Issac newton- law of motion which is determinism
Who came up with the idea that everything is
uncertain? what did he argue?
Werner Heisenberg- the unknown movement of an electron
Libertarians
*idea of human actions being chosen freely. Not even politically, but simply metaphysically we act freely.
Libertarians advocate for the expansion of individual autonomy and political freedom, emphasizing the principles of equality before the law and the protection of civil rights, including the rights to freedom of association, freedom of speech, freedom of thought and freedom of choice.
Hard determinism
Every effect has a cause: everything that happens in the present is a necessary event as a result of the past event
what do libertarians act under?
Principles of Alternate Possibilities: (PAP)
I dea that an action is only free when the agent could have done otherwaise. So if the thing in “control” had other choices…
How do libertarians account for there view? Event causation versus Agent causation
Event causation= no physcial event can be caused without being caused by a previous physical event (libertarian can support the idea of base ball being hit)
Agent causation=an agebnt(being propelled by a mind) can start a whole chain of causality that wasnt caused by anything(they just wanted to hit the ball)
agents have ability to affect the causal chain of universe and make it happen on their own
Who was a hard determinost? (french)
BARON D’HOLBACH
-None of our actions are actually free
-evrything is an unevitable result of the previous act, the reuslt of aunbroken chain of avents
biological and physical states
biological state is tied to our physical state which is already determiniistic
what is reductionism
the view that all parts of the world and our own epperinces can be traced back or reduced down to a single thing.
what do they say about luck
no such thing, we cant help but feel/react/do any other way than how we do rn
beleif and desires
Th beliefs` and desires are what allow mw ot beleive that I have free will, the beelif that oatmeal is healthy, and desire fro food gives oatmeal.
beleif+desire+temperament= human action
