Topic > Free Will and Choices - 1530

It is sincerely obvious that our experience of some source we make leads to the outcome of our free choices. For example, we probably believe that we have freely chosen to do the tasks and the thoughts that come to mind compel us to do the task. However, we may begin to wonder whether the choices we have made are actually free. As we read Donald C. Abel's Fifty Readings in Philosophy, all readers would argue about the thought of free will. In the first reading “The System of Human Freedom” by Baron D'Holbach, Holbach argues that “human beings are entirely physical entities and therefore entirely subject to the law of nature. We have a will, but our will is not free because it necessarily seeks our well-being and self-preservation." For example, if you were extremely thirsty and came across a water fountain but you knew the water was poisonous. If I refrain from drinking the water, it is because of the strength of my desire to avoid drinking the poisonous water. If I drank the water too much, it was because I manifested my desire for the water by becoming overwhelmed by the water from overseeing the poison in the water. Whether I drink or abstain from water, my action is the reason for the outcome and the effect of the movement I subsequently undertake. Holbach concludes that every human action, like everything that happens in nature, “is a necessary consequence of causes, visible or hidden, which are forced to act according to their own nature”. (p. 269)Reading “The Dilemma of Determinism” by William James, he explains that everything that will happen in the future is already predicted by the way things are now. In contrast, indeterminism allows some of the loose games we play with each other, to play between parts of the u...... middle of paper ......ng and a large period of time shown by others. From this it can be concluded that Darwin thinks and believes that pre-existing changes and factors are caused by our ancestors. So I believe Sartre prepares the best argument since Darwin and Freud to explain the choice of our paths in life. Since Freud argues that child development is a choice and Darwin thinks it was a process of natural selection, we are actually the result of the choices of both others and ourselves to carry out the actions and effects we create in society. We don't all have to blame the higher power for choosing responsibility when we negatively affect others. Lacking the higher power that no other source can enhance for the other, our own actions. From Sartre's argument, it is obvious that we are giving the freedom to choose our purpose in life and that we present ourselves with free will in all situations.