Libertarianism Research Paper

Explain the main concepts of Libertarianism-

One main concept of Libertarianism is the casually undetermined choice, which states that if you are a libertarian then you must follow the rule that human choices are not predetermined by causes, genetic or environmental and that the ethical decision made is therefore a casually undetermined choice. In other words a causally undetermined choice is one of true freedom. A causally undetermined choice can subdue the inclinations of upbringing and temperament. The causally undetermined choice can decide through an effort of will, to do something that is not self-interested but which satisfies a sense of moral duty. When applying this to the case of Antony Warrall Thompson, a celebrity chief who
They say we are helped in the decision making process by our conscience, some would even say our conscience is in effect a way of describing our ‘moral self’, this being when the conscience acts; it preforms a function. Thomas Aquinas referred to conscience as ‘It is reason making moral judgements or choice values.’ For libertarians it is clear that, whatever the definition conscience enables the decision making process to function based on the belief that we are choosing what is right or wrong. The ability to choose according to our conscience is a central part of what it means to be human. This can also be seen differently depending on your beliefs, other psychologists believe that it is a moral compass or the voice of God telling you what to do. In the case of the Bulger killers, the two boys must have had a conscience telling them what they were doing was wrong, because after they killed Jamie Bulger they took him to the train tracks and threw him on the track so that the police would think that he was hit by the moving train not killed by the two boys. Their conscience was telling them that what they were doing is wrong and that they shouldn’t do it however there must have been something that they were both predisposed to that made their personalities
This means that the choices we make are those made by us alone, we determine the choices we make. We all think we make our own choices, and therefore we cannot all be wrong. This is different from Hard Determinism where freewill is supposedly an illusion and that we are wrong by thinking we have freewill, our choices are all determined. When we make a choice we acknowledge that: a) we do not already know what we are going to do and b) it is in our power to do what we are thinking of doing. However, although Libertarians would argue that we are making free moral choices, they would claim that we are completely free. For example Antony Worrall Thompson, who is a celebrity chef, who stole shopping from Tesco. He made the choice to steal from that shop because we make all our own decisions according to Libertarianism. Whereas the Hard Determinist’s would say that he had no choice because of what happened in his early life, his mother was an alcoholic, and he was abused by four people he also had a facial injury from rugby which left him needing plastic surgery when he turned 18 and therefore there was nothing he could do. A Libertarian would disagree with this and say that he made the choice with no prior causes, he was self determined in that situation, he decided to steal out of his own volition and he should have been punished for