Waiter Flashcards
How does a waiter deceive himself
They play acting as a waiter
Their movements and convos r too waitresque
Waiter know they not merely a waiter but deceiving himself that he determined by his role
How does waiter deny his freedom
By using his own freedom to do so
He know he free an cd stop at any time but freely denies this to himself
How of we deny our freedom
By freely choosing to do so
Are ppl determined by their role or circumstance
All ppl are free to choose who they are and how they live
What does humanism encourage
Ppl to reflect on their own behaviour
Can peoples lives become determined
Yh
What is a experiencing being
They live in present
They have potential to respond freely to current situations
How can a person become determined
By external conditioning
It can occur due to social pressures
What’s Carl Roger’s argue
Young children do have their own developed thoughts. They not stupid
Eg religion ,politics
How do children stop having free will
If parents disapprove of their thoughts, child considers these thoughts wrong as they js wna be accepted by their parents
They now forget free will and embrace parents thoughts
Essentially rejecting their own ideas and becoming a deterministic robot
How can people achieve free will
Through self actualisation- a personal journey- unique to each person
Carl rogers quote
We are the best experts on ourselves
Only u can self actualise
What happens when we act on our own free will
We break the chains of determinism an express our own freedom will
What happens when we self actualise
We achieve full potential
Free will
True happiness
Fully functioning person
Science has been seen to support determinism but..
Cognitive neuroscience has begun to support libertarianism
What Angela sirigou do
She found free will in the parietal cortex
She electrically jolted parietal cortex in 7 patients in brain surgery
What happens when y make a choice
It’s like a relay race
What happened when patients were jolted
They felt a desire to move eg wiggle fingers
What happened when there was strong jolts (Angela)
They thought they moved when they didn’t acc
What’s a parietal cortex do
Send messages to pre motor cortex
What’s a pre motor cortex do
Initiates action and returns outcome to parietal cortex
What’s sirigou say ab parietal cortex
It can choose diff paths to pre motor cortex
She sees this as evidence of us making decisions
So she think she found a region where there’s free will
What are we condemned to
Face consequences of our moral actions
What do sartre and rogers both argue
We do not have complete free will
What does total free will come with
Total moral responsibility even if it is denied
What view does uk legal system
Takes free will view
See people as reasoning actors - they freely weigh up costs and benefits of actions
Cheat code for ao2 questions
You can use free will for any ao2 question
