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The Compatibility And Intelligibility Of Free Will

Posted on:2019-06-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X C AnFull Text:PDF
GTID:2405330572966502Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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For a long time,the study of the western philosophical questions about free will is always accompanied by various forms of argument and attacks,which often acts intensely then turn to far apart.There is not even a single satisfactory answer exists.And the reason of this situation is mainly because of a paradox,which is.if the world is moved by the laws of determinism,then human,as part of the world and their free will are obviously restricted by the law of causality and have the possibility of losing freedom;If the world is moved by the laws of indeterminism,the same human and free will have to face the threat of randomness.The freedom will thereby has no place to exist.This is definitely not the conclusion we need.After all,as the subject of the action,we can truly experience freedom "easily" in our daily lives and believe that we own it.Therefore,we have to analyze the reasons of this contradiction and think about how to acquire free will as the subject of human action.How to make freedom possible?And,what is that makes us feel free to act?If we are indeed free to act,or at some point at least.Then how to define this freedom?And so on.The purpose of this paper is to expound the explanations and answers to the questions of free will in the category of soft determinism(compatibilism),and to make some humble opinions accordingly.Soft determinism claims to combine determinism and free will and hold the view that even the macrocosm is dominated by determinism,we can still have the possibility of owning free will and free action.The first part of the article is the introduction.The second part focuses on the question of free will.which involves the free overview,the metaphysical connotation of freedom,the importance of free will and the free will and moral responsibility.The third part is determinism and indeterminism,including determinism and free will,and several forms and meanings of determinism,indeterminism with free will and quantum mechanics.The fourth part is the compatibilism and incompatibilism which has five sections including compatibilism with understandability,the freedom in the condition of classic compatibilism.the influence of defects of compatibilism,incompatibilism and the defects of compatibilism:The fifth part is the introduction of the new compatibilism.End with the conclusion.I hope this paper can provide some valuable references and suggestions for the study of free will among the scope of compatibilism.
Keywords/Search Tags:Soft determinism, Compatibilism, Free will, Causal Determinism
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