Determinism Analysis

Determinism is the belief that everything happening in our life is predetermined and we have no control over it. Baron Holbach argues about how our life is determined and what all things are affecting it.

Baron Holbach argues that humans are not free with regard to his actions, One has no control on ones action because he is determined by the universal law of nature. A man is just another physical object which is a part of the nature. The laws of the nature commands man and determines his behavior, he is born without any permission to do something by his own. Man is described as a physical object that has no control over the natural laws; it controls one's internal and external emotions and actions. A man cannot free himself from these laws.

He says that a man's supposed ability to make choices freely is just an illusion. He believes that all our will and decisions are the result of our brain activity and its interaction with the environment.

He states that even the desires of a man are determined. He explains this by giving an example that if a man is suffering with thirst and desires to fulfill it by drinking water, but if he is told that the water is intoxicated then he might abstain from drinking the water as he desires not to harm his body by drinking the poisoned water but again if his thirst is exsiccating then he might choose to drink the poisoned water because he would he would be perceived to drink the water, in either case both the actions are necessary to the condition. He explains that a man’s behavior and actions are is modified by the organization around him, which consists of laws, culture, beliefs, society, peers, environment, physiology, psychology, genes, geography, past history, occasions, climate, economical ...

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... go with the theory of Holbach then we will not be able to explain human existence as if we take out the organization there will be nothing left to be defined as a human because every aspect of human life is included in the organization including the physiology and psychology. If we take those things out then there is nothing left. When we see from the viewpoint of Islam then we can see many hadiths which says we are determined but we are still free, this means that the final decisions are still on us to make. Allah says in Quran addressing believers :"This is Paradise; you have inherited it by virtue of your past deeds" .(Surah Az-Zukhruf 72). And Have we not made for him a pair of eyes and shown him the two ways, good and evil, ( Surah Al-Balad 8,10 ). We can come to a conclusion from the above lines that God has given us free will to make choices by our own.