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In this essay you will address the controversy between free will and determinism.

You will go
deeper into the problem of determinism by choosing whether it is the predictability or
the unpredictability of our actions that poses a bigger threat to free will. Using passages from
the textbook, explain in detail what determinism is and why determinism threatens the idea of
free will.
Now consider these two opposite points of view about our ability to predict behavior:
1. Everything you do is predictable to those who know you well. This predictability
means your life is determined by choices beyond your control—Paraphrase from Vaughn,
p.258
2. “He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could
have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was
his doing.”—Cormac Mc Carthy (reprinted in Vaughn, p.255)
Explain what these two points of view mean and then give your own reasoned opinion about
which point of view is correct. Defend your answer.

Our action is dictated by factors that are not under our power. The environments have a
tremendous effect on temperament. Then we should agree to adapt ourselves to our

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circumstances or we can build a revolutionary. It's real that most of us tend to adapt to the people

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Determinism claims free will is an idea. This is a reality that free will is just an idea. We can't
achieve anything things we intend to say. We need to change our actions accordingly. They

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ought to obey those laws and legislation of culture.
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We can't play noisy music at night because the social rules and regulations forbid this act. Our
action is regulated by multiple internal and external influences which may or may not be under
our influence. We should conceive of a scenario in which both free will and determinism will
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This state is referred to as reliability. This needs different circumstances. We may do anything we
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want to do in our private house. The acts do not infringe the freedoms of others. Special
requirements are also necessary to guarantee the state of free will.

Both our actions can not be predetermined. We've got various characters. We're behaving
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slightly in our group of mates, though we're behaving in a totally different way around our
supervisor and our professors. The full estimation of someone's actions can not be calculated
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since we can not know the aspects of a person's unconscious mind.

This unpredictability keeps life exciting, because every day is a new day in our lives. Every day
offers fresh opportunities. Nothing can be defined by a common concept. For different
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environments, we have free will. We can't display free will anywhere.


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We might prepare for our potential, but we can't be sure about that. We can distinguish specific
incidents, but we can't forecast them with absolute conviction. Multiple forces function at the
same time that motivate us to take the middle course. The meaning of the "Perhaps / May Be"
clause is still there.

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