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Arguments On Hard Determinism

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Hard Determinism Exists.
For many years there have been arguments about hard determinism and if free will exists. This is an issue that we have been constantly trying to figure out. Some people think that if you don’t have free will, then you cannot have morality, which means that there will be no good or evil. Others like I believe that everyone's behavior is determined, and our life was destined to be this way. Hard determinism exists as it is supported by more theories in psychology than free will and because we constantly make decisions to live the lifestyle that has been chosen for us.
In general, hard determinism means that no human’s action is free. Foot notes Halbach believe that the main feeling reason that we believe that we are making …show more content…

I feel like our actions are pre-determined based off of where we originate and how we are raised. hard determined is belief plus desire, plus the nature to equal action. We can say that we choose to get up and eat breakfast before going to school, but we know we need food, so that we can focus and excel in our morning classes Everything we do has an action that leads us to why we do things the way we do as crash course philosophy #24 “Hard determinism argues that, just because we can’t pinpoint the exact factors that led us to an action, we could, in theory, isolate, them – if we knew enough about all the beliefs and temperaments swirling around in our brains”. People who are deterministic would disagree and those who believe in free will would agree There are two philosophers that can agree with me on hard determinism like Skinner, who focused mainly on the concept that people's behaviors are determined. When an individual's behavior is determined by force or punishment, it is clear that there is no act of free will. As Skinner said that humanly inaccessible system is "determined" by my genetic constitution. Pierre Seymour that is a determinism said that “If we knew the positions and speeds of every particle the universe and all the laws the govern them, we would be able to flawlessly predict the future (p.24) . Based on all the evidence gathered here in this essay we can agree that hard determinism dose exist as it is supported by multiple philosophers besides the two mentioned above unlike a free will which is highly unlikely to be

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