In real life I believe that the future is not set and only God knows what is going to happen. One could argue that if someone knows what is going to happen then it is inevitable. I think that the future is still not set because God only sees the outcome of free choices that people will make. The future is actually not set in The Odyssey because Odysseus chooses not to change his future when it is told to him, thus making it come true. I think that the only reason that the prophet Tireseas was able to tell Odysseus his future is because Odysseus sealed it by making a decision not to change it.
We should ask ourselves why certain patterns occur and not just accept that it was by “pure chance”. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/determinism Before there was anything called philosophy, religious accounts of man's fate explored the degree of human freedom permitted by superhuman gods. The Making myths often end in ventures of the first humans clearly making decisions and being held accountable. But a strong fatalism is present in those tales that foretell the future, based on the idea that the gods have intuition of future events. Anxious not to annoy the
Does Oedipus control his actions, or are they predetermined by the gods? It is this question that puts forth another question unanswered: Is it fate or free will that lies at the heart of the Oedipus myth? Fate and free will are both present in the Oedipus Rex story and Sophocles expresses these ideas through imagery, irony, and many other literary works. According to Peter Voss in the article titled The Nature of Free Will, he believes that free will allows people of society to have control over their choices, and be responsible for them as well. But, we must be able to make these choices with awareness and understanding(Voss, “The Nature of Freewill”).
When Odysseus thanked Hermes for the magical herb Moly, which negates and prevents Circe’s drug, Hermes instead tells Odysseus, to “Thank the goddess Pallas Athena, she sent me” (Homer 292). Athena aids Odysseus at the end of his Odyssey, by thwarting a potential war between Odysseus and his family against the Ithacan nobles, as she proclaims that “There will be no more bloodshed.” (Homer 302). Without the assistance of the goddess of wisdom, Odysseus may have arrived too late to prevent the suitors from taking over Ithaca, or turning to an even more grim situation, never may have returned. Aeolus, the king and god of winds, played a vital role in saving Odysseus from Poseidon. He “imprisoned all the rough winds and gales” granting Odysseus a safe trip back to Ithaca, although the greed of Odysseus’s sailors undoes what Aeolus had done for them.
Not only are the events around humans out of their control, their very thoughts and feelings are determined separately from any free will that they might possess. The concept of determinism must be separated from pre-determinism, a religious concept that states that the entire past and future was determined during the universe’s birth. Some people believe that one cause (usually thought to be God) was the start of a chain of events, where each link is in turn the cause for the next events in said chain. Some believe that the mind and body have different circumstances when it comes to determinism of the mind and determinism of the body. This is called mind/body dualism (The History of the Free Will Problem).
However, the relationship is one-sided, because his father expects him to be obedient and not argue with him. This a disappointing relationship because Henry's father tries to force Henry to do something he doesn't want to, also Henry decides not to go and disappoints his father. Another scene that shows the complexity of the relationship between Henry and his father is on page 263. His father is on his deathbed, and he tells Henry “I did it for you”, mentioning the letters that Henry had sent and received. Henrys’ father acted selfishly by stopping the communication between Henry and Keiko.
They are thought to have control over the both the natural and human world. The humans directly deal with the mythical beings in a world dominated by these beings. Historic religion tends to remove the mythology associated with primitive and archaic religions. A notion of one god, who created the universe and is its ruler, is created. There is also a strong desire to maintain the hierarchical structure that is common in archaic religions.
I strongly disagree with any notion that natural selection, or evolution shapes us in any way because the Bible tells us that “All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made” in John 1:3. Therefore, the natural selection and evolution theories do not hold up in light of God’s Word. While I believe that our personality, intelligence, athleticism, etc. may be partially inherited from our parents, it appears that they are mostly influenced by our environment. The Bible warns us that our influences can change our behaviors (see 1 Corinthians 15:33).
She wanted to marry Haimon but sacrificed this to bury her brother. Antigone puts God over the “law”. Unlike her uncle Creon, who puts law over family and God. " " " Both Antigone and Creon have their own ideas of what is "right" and what is "wrong". Antigone believed that the actions she took were done for the right reason, because they follow the law of the Gods.
FATE VS FREE WILL In a battle of fate verses free will who would win? Would it be fate or would it be free will that would take the victory. It could be the laws and regulation of fate better known as the power of what is suppose to happen. It also could very well be the liberty and freedom of freewill better know as the flexibility to choose your own. All readers that have read “The Storm” and “The Lady with the Dog” have witness this horrific battle.