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Determination, Free Will, and Incompatibilism

system and ones desires, but there must still be an element of freedom if one is to turn those desires into action. Compati...

Moral Responsibility, Determinism, and Free Will

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

Fictional Literature, Determinism, and Free Will

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

Determinism and Free Will

only capable of the action, but capable of free action. The man had control over the act; the dog did not. However, just the oppo...

Determinism, Free Will, and the Fate of Humanity

by the reasons and values which occupy the highest, conscious level of our organismic structure" (Bissell, no date, p. indexmm1.ht...

Human Action Determination According to George Edward Moore and B.F. Skinner

In five pages human behavior is examined from the perspectives of B.F. Skinner's theories concerning modification and determinism ...

Determinism, Free Will, and James Cagney

In five pages the determinism and free will philosophies of Richard Taylor, Walter T. Stace, and Baron D'Holbach are applied to th...

Determinism and Free Will

In a paper consisting of five pages the extent of free will in light of behavior determinism is assessed. Two sources are cited i...

The Philosophies of David Hume and Rene Descartes Applied to the Abortion Issue

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

Attitudes and Free Will in the Book of Genesis and Paradise Lost by John Milton

in clear opposition to what is found in Genesis. The student will want to point out that Adam and Eve can easily relate...

Free Will, Determinism, and David Hume

In five pages Hume's views on free will and determinism are examined within the context of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understandi...

Film The Matrix and the Philosophies of Rene Descartes and Jean Paul Sartre

the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...

How Social Interaction and Social Structure Shape Personal Experiences

seem to be too concerned with how the situation turned out; this, as I see now, was because he had a queue of others just waiting ...

Psychological Indeterminism and Determinism

science, man used to think himself a free agent possessing free will. Science gives us, instead, causal determinism wherein every...

Calvinist Perspective on Determinism and Free Will

In some way, Calvinism gave them comfort. They were living a certain way, but it was Gods influence so it was okay. In many ways, ...

William James' Free Will and Baron d'Holbach's Philosophy of Determinism

In four pages this paper contrasts these two very different philosophies. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In nine pages this research paper compares these two works in terms of how they represent free will and determinism philosophies. ...

Free Will or Determinism in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In five pages this paper argues that instead of free will Oedipus is instead controlled by determinism in this tragic play by Soph...

Discussion of Hermann Hesse's Siddartha

In five pages this paper analyzes Siddhartha's journey in a consideration of the author's life as well as the parallels that exist...

Determinism Perspectives, Quantum vs. Laplacian

of classical mechanics (Bradley, 2002). From this point in history onward, scientists viewed the universe from a distinctly differ...

Hermmann Hesse's Govinda and Siddhartha

In 6 pages the novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse is examined in this comparative character analysis of the title protagonist and G...

Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund

It is always simpler to diagnose someone elses life than ones own, and so it is that the reader watches as Goldmund slowly unravel...

Hesse's Novel Demian

religion being interpreted, or misinterpreted, by human beings that they were no longer valid....

Hermann Hesse's Life and Writings

In five pages this paper draws comparisons between the life and writings of Hermann Hesse with Demian and Steppenwolf among the wo...

Hesse’s Siddhartha, A Reflection

researching this topic should relate some incident/knowledge that he/she gained from personal experience versus formal education. ...

Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game and Intellectualism

capacity for sublimation. . . Soon afterwards philology followed this method and began to measure linguistic configurations as phy...

Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Andre Gide on Freedom

the cellars of the Vatican. Meanwhile, in the Popes place is an imposter. The Countess, of course, quickly antes up the money that...

Albert Camus and the Theme of Imprisonment

see how the people in this town were essentially imprisoned in their own little useless lives as they went about getting rich, imp...

Robert Brock's Criticism of Albert Camus' Stranger

in order to emphasize his points concerning capital punishment. Brock is particularly persuasive when he argues that Camus places ...

The Stranger by Albert Camus

He replied that he had "rather lost the habit of noting" his feelings and, therefore, "hardly knew what to answer" (Camus 80). He ...