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DETERMINISM - Coggle Diagram
DETERMINISM
THEOLOGICAL DETERMINISM
- The future is determined by Gods omnipotence, so there can be no free will
- An omniscient God must know the entire past, present & future of the universe
- AQUINAS & CALVIN :
- God determines our futures accordingly
- he's already decided who's going heaven or hell
- If God know a person will perform an action a some point in their life, that person cant avoid performing that action
- A TIMELESS GOD : some argue his omniscience means he sees the result of our free future choices, but doesnt cause them
- A TEMPORAL GOD: alternative view that God exists in time, so he cannot know the future
- so theological determinism = false
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SCIENTIFIC DETERMINISM
- science tells us that for every physical event theres a physical cause
- we are made of matter which obeys laws of physics e.g gravity
- Ultimately everything has a physical cause, so free will does not exist.
- There is a long chain of causation stretching back to the Big Bang and forward from here and now into the future
- if we consider the mind to be material activity in the brain, chemical impulses, then our thoughts and sesires are also pre determined
- All events including human actions & choices are determined by antecedent events, so there can be no free will
BASIS
- Human behaviour & actions are wholly determined by a range of internal and external factors
- therefore humans dont have genuine free will
- every action/event has a prior cause- universal causation
- this applies to physical & mental events (thoughts and decisions)
- we may think we are free to choose what we do, but freedom is an illusion