'Only Hard Determinism is justifiable' Discuss. Determinism is the idea that all actions are governed by laws outside of one’s control. Some philosophers believer that one’s ability to make free choices is an illusion whereas, others state that there is something else beyond understanding that may cause one’s actions to be determined. There are a variety of theories which are response to dealing with debate about free will and determinism. Hard determinism is the theory that human behaviour and actions are wholly determined by external factors, and therefore humans do not have genuine free will or ethical accountability.
I disagree with certain idea and issue Rene Descartes argues about in his passage. His beliefs of skepticism at points were valid at times but every human has a right to believe, do anything or create what they want to believe in their mind. To make it feel real is up to the person because we control our emotions which control our mind set to think if we are being trick to having ten fingers or to believe there is no god that created this world we call earth. The scope of knowledge in this reading "Meditations on first philosophy" by Rene Descartes is the truth of doubt. Doubt causes people to believe that you do not know something when you actually do.
In this case, the cause would be social conditioning – Baroch Spinoza said that although we may think that we are free, we are not, we are merely aware of our actions. “In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to will this or that by a cause, which has been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on until infinity.” This emphasizes the fact that we are contingent beings, and that although we feel that we have options in life, the choices that we make are in the end determined my one single factor, which started a chain reaction creating the world we live in today. The surrounding and environment we are brought up into and therefore the upbringing and social conditioning we receive it determined. Our actions are due to how
CheckPoint: Motivation Theories Samantha J. Horn PSY/230 11 May 2012 Diane Pascoe Motivation Theories When speaking of motivation there are three main views that are discussed: Psychoanalytic, Humanistic, and Diversity; each possessing its own unique characteristics. I favor the diversity view the most because it allows for flexibility. Humans are diverse, and all are different in unique ways. The diversity view argues that humans do things and are motivated by different things. Some may be motivated by money or power, while others are motivated by emotion and well-being.
By critiquing my ability to convey an effective structure in my piece, I have realised the lack of coherence and expansion of evidence that I have yet to acknowledge, creating an effect that is less attentive to readers. Similarly, I have also, in some instances, ignored the clarity that is needed in each paragraph by the simplicity of sign posting ideas that could have created a smoother flow through the structure. Part of the reason why I condemn this piece of writing as ‘ineffective’ has much to do with the lack of clarity in that which I defined as structure as opposed to what structure really consisted of. My inability to recognize the significance of structure in a piece of writing added to a loss of creativity and individuality. The idea of a structured essay, in my mind, solely consisted on five separate paragraphs, with the essentials of an introduction and conclusion.
Rauch also states that though prejudice may be misguided belief, there is no need to choose sides and that is the beauty of intellectual pluralism. Rauch’s essay states that knowledge is what leads to pluralism and more knowledge is not necessarily a good thing. By saying, “We cannot know in advance or for sure which belief is prejudice and which is truth, but to advanced knowledge we don’t need to know”, (393), he supports his idea. But in order to gain intellect on anything, you have to have knowledge. At the end of the day, we survive on basic knowledge.
Secondary qualities, he considered to be nothing but the powers [of bodies] to produce different sensations in us by their primary qualities. Examples of secondary qualities include colour, sound and taste – this point that secondary qualities essentially depend on primary qualities [size, shape, texture etc. ], is crucial. Furthermore, Locke infers that the ideas of primary qualities of bodies
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For Matheson, Husserl provides a better conceptual ground for rejecting the representationalist theory. For instance, if we try to characterize the relationship between a portrait and the person portrayed, we would not find difficulty in doing this because we can experience both objects, but we cannot do this when it pertain objects of experience because it can never be established as a relation. That which is purportedly represented cannot be pointed out as such. And if I can point out the represented object then the represented object must also be a
All three of these texts chosen, represent the advantages of belonging more than disadvantages by using themes, ideas and techniques. The simple gift written by Steven Herrick is a text that explores belonging in a positive way by using different language techniques, ideas and themes. This text shows how the characters billy, old bill and Caitlin all have a different understanding and need to belong. These techniques, ideas and themes displayed through the poem demonstrate how belonging has more advantages and disadvantages in this text. Examples of Ideas that are shown throughout the text are alienation, exclusion, outsiders, longing or social acceptance and identity, searching for a place to belong and the safety and danger of human relationships.