“Freedom‚ Determinism‚ and the Case for Moral Responsibility: A Look Back at the Murder of Jamie Bulger” begins by telling of the heinous crime that is the centerpiece of this paper. On February 12th 1993‚ British toddler Jamie Bulger abducted at a local shopping mall in Liverpool‚ England. Evidence that the two year old was beaten‚ sexually molested‚ and clubbed to death with bricks and an iron bar before discarding his body on train tracks. The age of his two assailants‚ Jon Venables and Robert
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According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy‚ moral responsibility can be view as action that is “worthy of a particular kind of reaction – praise‚ blame‚ or something akin to these for having performed it [a moral act]‚” (Stanford Encyclopedia). Therefore‚ we have three theories at hand that can explain the true nation of moral responsibility and its relation to human freedom and determinism: libertarianism‚ hard determinism and compatibilism. However‚ I believe there is only one theory
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The controversy between freewill and determinism has been argued about for years. Freewill is defined as the belief that our behaviour is under our own control and do not act in response to any internal or external factors. Freewill has been found to have four different conditions and to have freewill at least two conditions must be obtained‚ these are; people have a choice on their actions‚ have not been coerced by anything or anyone‚ have full voluntary and deliberate control of what they do. One
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argument discussing hard determinism which is stated
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Project Plan Inception Tony Howell Jr. CIS499 January 14‚ 2012 Dr. Richard Burroughs Project Plan Inception As the newly Chief Information Officer (CIO) for our company I highly understand the drive to become a leading provider and advisor for data collection and analysis field. With the leading edge equipment Web analytics and operating systems data the future of the company looks promising. Becoming a foremost consultant of Web analytics in this market will be fortuitist to the company
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While many rationalists such as René Descartes support the notion that the concept of Inception is not possible‚ empiricists such as David Hume may think differently. Hume was an eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher known for his system of radical and philosophical empiricism‚ skepticism‚ and naturalism. In one of his works‚ Hume stated that one cannot create completely new ideas without either prior knowledge of those ideas‚ or experiencing those ideas. Put differently‚ he believed that the ideas
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Inception and the Allegory of the Cave The movie “Inception” is a great example of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. The idea that through a dream you can achieve a state of enlightenment directly relates to changing a way of thinking. The hero in the movie Cobb has demons to exercise from his former way of thinking In order to achieve his goal of “reality”. His sun or enlightenment is ridding himself of his wife Mal and showing himself the reality with Fisher. Mal represents the old way of thinking
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A. DEFENCE OF HARD DETERMINISM Hard Determinism argues that every event is causally determined. For an event ‘A’ to occur casually means that there are antecedent causes that ensure the occurrence of ‘A’ in accordance with impersonal‚ mechanical causal laws. To clarify hard determinism further‚ let me present hard determinism as an argument. Basically hard determinism argues that: (a) Determinism is true (b) Determinism is incompatible with free will (Holbach‚ 451). In defense of premise (a)‚ the
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The movie Inceptions tells us the story of the movie through the characters dreams they are having. The dreams are not their natural dreams they are creating the dreams so they can fulfill a certain solution. The filmmakers use the story for the audience to feel certain emotions by being able for us to relate to what the character is deal with. They show us the relationship between the characters which can make us feel certain emotions. Throughout the movie you feel certain connections with the characters
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Philosophy Freedom vs. Determinism Jean Paul Sarte‚ who is a libertarian‚ says that “Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself”. He is fully responsible for his existence. Sarte is saying that man is shaped and made up of what he has done and what he will do. Sarte’s stance is there is no determinism‚ man is free‚ man is freedom. For example‚ a coward is responsible for being a coward. It’s not because he’s made up physiologically to be a coward but he’s like that because he made
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