Essays on Free Will

After reading and studying the play Hamlet written by william shakespear i have come to a conclusion that hamlet is arbiter of his own fate. This can be shown by studying critical texts written by both Andrew Foley(2012) and by S A Blackmore(1917). The former…

The world is Spiritual. Most people believe to some extent of an external power or force, whether that be God, a ghost or even destiny. For example, Muslims believe in Allah, Christians believe in Jesus, Jewish people believe in God. If you boil it all…

Jean-Paul Sartre once said, “I am condemned to freedom. I am not free because I can make choices, but because I must make them, all the time, even when I think I have no choice to make.” His play, No Exit, was written to critique…

“Foreknowledge and Free Will” was written by Rabbi Hillel Goldberg. Rabbi Goldberg has a doctorate in Jewish Intellectual Studies, and in this article, he discusses the paradox of the quote, “Everything is foreseen, yet free will is given” (Ethics of the Fathers 3:19). He uses…

When the witches prophesize Macbeth’s destiny, do they change the future by giving Macbeth the ideas necessary to play them out? I want to discuss about that all of us in this world has a free will but this is depends on the person what…

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path” (Buddha). Hence, one’s future is the development of events beyond a person’s control. However, William Shakespeare, the author of the play Macbeth used the main character…

Introduction We like to think that the knowledge which we know is the absolute truth, and our decisive actions will lead towards an intended outcome (Jones 129). We make decisions and actions based on personal beliefs. We also use it as a method of measure…

Freedom Means in Philosophy: Adaptability may be a state of judgment skills. It may be a philosophical concept that reflects an unavoidable human right to realize its human will. Outside of adaptability, a person can not recognize the luxuriousness of his inside world and his…

Let me start by explaining what is meant by “Free Will” and what is meant by “Determinism”. According to an article published on January 7, 2002, in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, we could define “Free Will” as “the canonical designator for a significant kind…

When first reading Oedipus the King, one of the three Theban Plays, written by Sophocles around 440 B.C., it was, to put it simply, a repulsive story about a man who kills his father and marries his mother all because a prophecy made before he…

Free will is something taken for granted, or better yet not given any thought. Unless a person has decided to dive head on into philosophy or someone has held a conversation with someone who follows it, most of us would agree we have free will….

One Hundred Years of Solitude Generation after generation of characters in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude face the same struggle between fate and their own free will. However, the unsolved problems of one generation – self-isolation, unhealthy romantic pursuits, poor decision making,…

East of Eden: Reasoning With Perspectives There is no such thing as Good or Evil. Although society may deem certain acts unacceptable, all choices are simply based on reasoning and perspective. What is good to one person is bad to another. For example, if you…

Erasmus of Rotterdam vs. Martin Luther Erasmus Argument #1: God gives no reason to live a pious life if free will is nonexistent and the fate of salvation has been predetermined. If even the lives of the “most pious men are sinful,” God gives no…

The very word determinism has a rather undefined meaning, much because the philosophers have different meanings in the word and defined it in a different way. In general, we can say that determinism is a teaching which means that all that happens is preceded by…