Essay On Determinism

Determinism is the idea that the future is already determined, every that happens was supposed to happen because of the things that went on before it happened making it so it couldn’t happen any other way. Free will is one being able to make free choices between the options that we see are open to one. Freedom is compatible with determinism because freedom is not being constrained when one chooses to act. The way one chooses to act can be based off of ones physiological and psychological makeup, which is determined by things that one cannot control, Strawson makes the example of these things being genetic make up and their upbringing. Strawson states that freedom is not being physically or psychologically forces into doing things. Everyone is free to choose their actions and decisions throughout their entire life. Free will is just having the options to choose from and the actions to make and being able to chose which is the best. Strawson thinks that humans are not free because he believes that if
He argues that one acts the way they do in a situation is because of the way you are, he continues by saying that to be fully morally responsible for what one does then you must be fully responsible for the way you are. One cannot be fully responsible for the way they are because one has no choice of their gene pool or their upbringing. He goes on by saying that one knows that they are how they are, and that one has a certain mental nature that now one is able to be fully responsible for having a certain nature. One must have has a certain nature that brought about the second nature. For one to be fully and only truly responsible for how they are they must be responsible for having the first nature that brought out the second nature. Strawson says that one purposefully had to have had the second nature, but in order to bring about the second nature one must have already existed with a nature that existed before the second