FREE WILL

VS.
DETERMINISM
WEEK 12
YOU SHOULD BE
ABLE TO:
• Define the meaning of determinism in
contrast to the belief of freedom

• Identify the existentialist view of human

freedom
WHAT IS FREE
WILL?
 FREE WILL
- “IT IS THE ABILITY TO CHOOSE BETWEEN
DIFFERENT POSSIBLE COURSES OF ACTION
UNIMPEDED.” FREE WILL IS CLOSELY LINKED
TO THE CONCEPTS OF MORAL
“RESPONSIBILITY, PRAISE, GUILT, SIN, AND
OTHER JUDGMENTS WHICH APPLY ONLY TO
ACTIONS THAT ARE FREELY CHOSEN. IT IS ALSO
CONNECTED WITH THE CONCEPTS OF ADVICE,
PERSUASION, DELIBERATION, AND
PROHIBITION.”
DETERMINISM
DETERMINISM
• It is “the philosophical view that all
events are determined completely
by previously existing causes.
Deterministic theories throughout
the history of philosophy have
sprung from diverse and sometimes
overlapping motives and
considerations.”
SAMPLE OF FACTORS RELATING
TO DETERMINISM

• DNA, involuntary impulses, and Hormones

• Environment
• People
CONCEPTS OF
DETERMINISM
 CAUSAL
DETERMINISM
 CAUSAL
DETERMINISM
• is "the idea that every
event is necessitated by • Meaning, in every cause,
antecedent events and there is an expectation of
conditions together with equal and opposite
the laws of nature." reaction.
FATALISM
 FATALISM
• is the idea that everything is
fated/destined to happen so that
humans have no control over
their future. Although it may be
synonymous with theological
determinism where God can
foresee the future, for it is
destined with His power.
Example of which is the fate of
Satan, Judas, and “son of
perdition”.
THEOLOGICAL
DETERMINISM
THEOLOGICAL
DETERMINISM
• is a form of determinism that holds that
all events that happen are preordained
or predestined to happen by a
monotheistic deity or destined to occur
given its omniscience. An excellent
example of this is the destiny of St.
Paul, Prophet Jeremiah, St. John the
Baptist, and Lord Jesus.
 LOGICAL
DETERMINISM
OR
DETERMINATENESS
LOGICAL DETERMINISM OR
DETERMINATENESS
• is the notion that all propositions, whether about the
past, present, or future, are either true or false. It
uses the immediate predict the possible happen, and
you can be sure of its certainty because it was
already happening in the past. In other words, you
already determine or anticipate the possibility of
the end.
 ADEQUATE
DETERMINISM
ADEQUATE
DETERMINISM
• is a statistical determinism
where the statistics are near
to certainty for large
macroscopic objects.
 THE MANY-
WORLDS
INTERPRETATION
THE MANY-WORLDS
INTERPRETATION
• “accepts the linear causal sets of
sequential events with adequate
consistency yet also suggests
constant forking of causal chains
creating "multiple universes" to
account for multiple outcomes from
single events.”
 THE
EXISTENTIALISTS
VIEW OF HUMAN
FREEDOM
HERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE EXISTENTIALISTS
VIEW OF HUMAN FREEDOM

• Man is free because

2. Freedom is a gift
God gives him that
that God endowed
freedom - freedom of
choice. to men.

3. Freedom as such 4. There is no absolute

is good, but freedom since freedom
is God’s gift to man in
sometimes it
men’s humanity.
becomes terrible.
HERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE EXISTENTIALISTS
VIEW OF HUMAN FREEDOM

5. Freedom should always be 6. Freedom that enables man to

attuned to the nature of man determine according to his
because it is only being human own choices is the freedom
where we can truly exercise our that is proper to man.
freedom.

7. Freedom should be
8. Man has the freedom to do
personalized since it cannot
anything he wants to do, but he
be divorced from its
is not free from the
impending responsibilities. consequences of his actions.
9. There are three kinds of
Freedom: Freedom from
physical constraints. This is
manifested by beasts, infants, 10. There is no
mentally retarded; Freedom freedom apart from the
as one pleases (exercised by law, for laws are meant
ruffians, anarchists, and to regulate man’s
immature individuals); the
exercise of freedom.
Authentic freedom (an
attunement with what is
divinely required)
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LISTENING!
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