PHILOS 1E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Determinism
9 Jan 2016
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Determinism is not a claim about our freedom, but is about the universe we live: everything that happens, happens because it has been caused. Determinists deny that we didn"t freely chose to have the choices we have. Free choice is an uncaused cause: if the universe is a deterministic chain of events, there is only one place for an uncaused cause (god) -> the first cause. Robert kane: libertarian freedom, self-forming actions. May fit with indeterminism because there is a gap between what might happen and what does happen. Acts by which we make ourselves into the kinds of persons we are.
