Argumentative Essay On Are You Free

Are you free?

When we discuss the free will, I always come up some questions like Are we totally “free,” or is our behavior determined by external factors out of our control? Could I have chosen a different way to do something? Am I responsible for my own actions?

Some people may believe that every physical event is caused by previous physicals event, according to the laws of nature. Our beliefs about causality seem inconsistent with our belief that we could have chosen otherwise.

Some incompatibilism supporters like Holbach accept the determinism but denies the existence of free will and regards it as an illusion. He maintains that people might have no control over the circumstance of their birth, ideas and habits. To be free, an action must be independent of determining physical causes. However, all changes

Frank sees Hermes in Selfridges, and he doesn’t feel like paying for them, so he steals them.

In the first case since a kleptomaniac suffers from a compulsion to steal, he cannot help stealing, so we would probably say that he should get psychiatric help when he is caught. We don’t hold him to be morally responsible because he couldn’t have acted otherwise. In the second case, Frank could prevent himself from stealing. He is morally responsible for what he had done and regarded as a thief in this case because he could have acted otherwise.

On the other hand, A person is free of constraint when they would have acted otherwise if they had decided otherwise, which alone makes one morally responsible. Ayer sees this as the key to the problem of free will and determinism.

To sum up, I am more impressed by the Ayer’s opinion towards the essence of free will. Rousseau said in the social contract that “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” We can reconcile determinism with freedom of the will. humans are determined, yet still morally