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    Are We As Humans Truly Free?

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    This document argues that determinism provides the best framework for understanding free will. It claims that libertarianism, which believes humans have total free will, is not logically sound because there is no evidence that free will exists independent of causal factors. Compatibilism believes humans have some freedom but everything is ultimately determined. The document aims to prove determinism and refute objections to it. It argues that humans are material beings subject to natural laws, so their will is not truly free but rather chooses based on what seems most advantageous.

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    Are We As Humans Truly Free?

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    This document argues that determinism provides the best framework for understanding free will. It claims that libertarianism, which believes humans have total free will, is not logically sound because there is no evidence that free will exists independent of causal factors. Compatibilism believes humans have some freedom but everything is ultimately determined. The document aims to prove determinism and refute objections to it. It argues that humans are material beings subject to natural laws, so their will is not truly free but rather chooses based on what seems most advantageous.

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    This document argues that determinism provides the best framework for understanding free will. It claims that libertarianism, which believes humans have total free will, is not logically sound because there is no evidence that free will exists independent of causal factors. Compatibilism believes humans have some freedom but everything is ultimately determined. The document aims to prove determinism and refute objections to it. It argues that humans are material beings subject to natural laws, so their will is not truly free but rather chooses based on what seems most advantageous.

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    Are We As Humans Truly Free?

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    Felix Orion
    This document argues that determinism provides the best framework for understanding free will. It claims that libertarianism, which believes humans have total free will, is not logically sound because there is no evidence that free will exists independent of causal factors. Compatibilism believes humans have some freedom but everything is ultimately determined. The document aims to prove determinism and refute objections to it. It argues that humans are material beings subject to natural laws, so their will is not truly free but rather chooses based on what seems most advantageous.

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    The text discusses different perspectives on free will including determinism, libertarianism, and compatibilism.

    The text argues that determinism is the most logical view of free will and that libertarian free will is not supported by evidence. It also discusses compatibilism as a middle ground perspective.

    Compatibilism believes that while the universe operates deterministically, humans still have free will in the sense of moral responsibility for their actions. Determinism sees all actions as determined by past causes.

    Are we as humans truly free?

    This is a question that many


    individuals often wonder about their freedom even though there
    is this common sense that we just are. Though we feel like we
    are free and think that we have the choice to make the decisions
    we do, and that everything that has occurred is because of our
    decisions, does this verify that we are in fact free? Are we bound
    by nature and its functioning? Or rather do we have freedom, yet
    everything is still at the same time determined? This research
    paper will argue for the concept of determinism and how
    humans should think about free will, while answering to
    objections from libertarianism and compatibilism. Determinism
    will be proven as the way by which free will should be thought
    as it provides…show more content…

    People who believe in this theory are confident that individuals


    make choices that cause their beliefs and actions and that those
    choices made, are wholly due to their own choosing. Though
    this is a popular belief, it is not a logical case for believing
    humans have free will. If a reason for something cannot be
    found for why we feel a certain way, and in this case free,
    philosophy rejects it. Therefore, this reasoning of free will is
    irrational as there is no evidence to support it. On one end of the
    continuum is the belief in total free will, on the other end is the
    belief that free will does not exist. However, there is middle
    ground in a third concept by which has pieces of both sides
    contributing to this one notion. This concept is compatibilism,
    which believes somewhat like determinists, that the universe
    operates with law like order. Thus, the past determines the
    future, and though compatibilists believe this they also believe
    some of the actions taken by humans really are free. Though
    every action is free to a compatibilist there is no way by which
    something couldn’t not happen, therefore everything is
    determined. However, humans still have a freedom according to
    compatibilist by which they have moral responsibility and thus
    must admit to their thought and actions as their own. Though
    these two theories each provide their own structure on…show
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    In response to the objection, why would God voluntarily want to


    be loved by some humans, and then when they die he is loved on
    them like a gumball machine? In other words, why would God
    want all of this love from someone all of a sudden continuously
    being spat out at him? Seems as though it is an irrational point
    that makes no sense because of the inconsistency of it as well as
    free will with the objective that a mere feeling can create true
    concept without reasoning. However, this very reason makes
    this objection completely illogical as indeterminists tend to put
    the cart before the horse. This means that they are believing in
    an outcome without a cause which completely goes against the
    natural functioning of the world in which determinism may
    present it as the domino effect. The domino effect signifies that
    for every action there must be a cause. Human beings are
    material beings and therefore they are subject to the causal laws
    of nature according to Baron d’Holbach. For he contends that,
    although humans do have a will, this will be not free as it may
    seem but rather, it inevitably chooses what it believes will be
    most advantageous to the individual (Abel 267). For example,
    Zenos arrow and the idea of motion. For there is no moment
    when the arrow is actually moving, thought it was released by a
    bow, no thing or the arrow truly

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