Madison Badura Philosophy 12:55-1:45 December 2, 2016 Determinism The argument for the claim that determinism is incompatible with human freedom and moral responsibility is shown in the Classical Formulation. 1. Some agent, at some, could have acted otherwise than she did. 2. Actions are events 3. Every event has a cause. 4. If an event is caused, then it is usually casually determined. 5. If an event is an act that is casually determined, then the agent of the act could not have acted other than in the way that she did. People who believe that determinism is incompatible with moral responsibility and free will, incompatibilists, will think that the Classical Formulation and that #5 is completely true. Roderick Chisholm is an incompatibilist …show more content…
With that we do not always have free will. This would also prove that determinism and free will are compatible because determinism says that all events are ultimately determined by outside causes showing that humans have no free will. I believe that we can make our own decisions but ultimately, all our decisions are already laid out and chosen for us. We are morally responsible for our decisions, but free will is not the same. Most of our choices are caused but outside events, even if we don’t think they are. For example, if you are at Starbucks and you are ordering a drink, even if you don’t think, someone could have suggested a drink that you order, or Starbucks lays out an ad that makes you think ordering that drink is in your best interest, but maybe they just want you to spend the most money. Although we may not think that our actions are coming from outside events, almost all of our decisions are based on outside sources and people who influenced it sometime in our life. Some arguments to this might be that we have free will in some cases, like choosing if you want a red or blue cast. How could someone influence to choose your own favorite color? But I believe that at some time in your life, someone had influenced you to make that decision. So all in all, I believe that determinism and free will are