Free Will
Are we free to do what we want?
Humans are species with highly developed brain, intelligence, wisdom, and self- awareness. We do also have a free will. Does it mean that we are free to do what we want? Does it give us ability and permission to act regardless of any other features? In the topic of this essay we can notice the construction of argument with its hidden premise. The full argument can sound: ‘If we have a free will, then we are free to do what we want and nothing can stop us in achieving whatever we want’. Assuming, that we have a free will, argument can be true only if the conclusion is true, what means, that there is nothing that could stop us in getting what we want.
In this essay I intend to refute the conclusion, proving …show more content…
It means that our premise in this argument is always true. The only possibility where the argument is valid when all of the premises are true is when the conclusion is also true. We have to check the value of our conclusion. Is it true that we are free to do what we want? We are restricted by our morality, knowledge of what is right and wrong limits us in doing what we want. Even if we had no morality, we are bounded by economic and legal limits. Our finances are never infinite and we always come under the law. Supposing that we had nearly unlimited finances and no law would be able to stop us in doing what we want, the problem would still be limited abilities and resources. Being restricted contradicts the statement that we are unlimited in our actions, what makes the statement, that we are free to do what we want, false. Therefore the whole conclusion is false. True premise, that we have a free will, is followed by false conclusion. It makes the whole argument invalid, as a result we can deduct that it is not the case that we are free to do what we want. If it is not the case that we are free to do what we want, then we are not free to do what we want. We are limited in our actions and we have to obey the rules, no matter how hard we try to break them and how much we try to always do what we want. It is impossible to do everything we want, thus we have just established the knowledge that we are not free to do what we
Humans are species with highly developed brain, intelligence, wisdom, and self- awareness. We do also have a free will. Does it mean that we are free to do what we want? Does it give us ability and permission to act regardless of any other features? In the topic of this essay we can notice the construction of argument with its hidden premise. The full argument can sound: ‘If we have a free will, then we are free to do what we want and nothing can stop us in achieving whatever we want’. Assuming, that we have a free will, argument can be true only if the conclusion is true, what means, that there is nothing that could stop us in getting what we want.
In this essay I intend to refute the conclusion, proving …show more content…
It means that our premise in this argument is always true. The only possibility where the argument is valid when all of the premises are true is when the conclusion is also true. We have to check the value of our conclusion. Is it true that we are free to do what we want? We are restricted by our morality, knowledge of what is right and wrong limits us in doing what we want. Even if we had no morality, we are bounded by economic and legal limits. Our finances are never infinite and we always come under the law. Supposing that we had nearly unlimited finances and no law would be able to stop us in doing what we want, the problem would still be limited abilities and resources. Being restricted contradicts the statement that we are unlimited in our actions, what makes the statement, that we are free to do what we want, false. Therefore the whole conclusion is false. True premise, that we have a free will, is followed by false conclusion. It makes the whole argument invalid, as a result we can deduct that it is not the case that we are free to do what we want. If it is not the case that we are free to do what we want, then we are not free to do what we want. We are limited in our actions and we have to obey the rules, no matter how hard we try to break them and how much we try to always do what we want. It is impossible to do everything we want, thus we have just established the knowledge that we are not free to do what we