Essays on Free Will

Oedipus was a king that was torn between free will and the destiny of the gods. Even though fate seemed to control Oedipus’ life, he did still have a free will. The story was based on whether free will or fates were influencing the characters’ lives. Both fate and free will went throughout the play…

In Desiderius Erasmus’s Defense of Free Will. he refutes Martin Luther’s creed that God predestines everyone’s lives and alternatively asserts that adult male entirely possesses the power to take his ain way to either redemption or damnation. The drama Macbeth. by William Shakespeare. raises similar inquiries – did the supporter. Macbeth. volitionally choose to perpetrate…

The conception of free will and its influence over human control has been at the forefront of philosophical debates and discussions for as long as the theme of philosophical thought has been interpreted. The notion of free will, as defined by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is the “canonical designator for a significant kind of…

In our normal perception, every human in this world have their own free will to do anything they want to in different situation. The question is does everyone think that we all have free will and are not being controlled by other? Would there be anything that is controlling our mind and our behaviours? In…

In this paper, I will argue that the principle of universal causation is inconsistent with free will. Universal Causation is the principle that all events or actions that occur have a prior event or action that caused that specific event or action to take place. Varying philosophical schools of thought including the hard determinism, libertarianism,…

Robert Louis Stevenson’s book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the most famous pieces of literature concerned with the theme of the double. The answer to the riddle proposed by the story is only given at the end of the narration when the strange experiments of the scientist Dr. Jekyll are revealed. At…

One of the greatest philosophical and scholarly debates since the age of Enlightenment is the argument over whether human free will actually exists, or is it just an optimistic illusion. This deliberation has been the subject and driving force of multiple tragedies, perhaps most famously Sophocles’ Oedipus Rexes and William Shakespearean Hamlet and Macbeth. These…

The debate on free will is a very deep issue that cannot be answered simply. Each person must come to his or her own conclusions based on a mixture of several factors: understanding the proposed question, studying religious beliefs, doctrines and materials, and simply drawing from life experience. In my opinion, Erasmus had a better…

I generally read books for pleasure that have an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement. When I sit down to read, I want to find out what happens next. I have never taken the time during or after reading a book to ask myself, “what was the theme of that? What am I…

Free Will Versus Control in Phaedra’s Outburst and the Nurse’s Rebuttal in Euripides’ Hippolytus ( 373- 480 ) In antediluvian Grecian civilization. it was believed that worlds were in control of their ain fates and actions despite being capable to the caprices of the Gods. However in Euripides’ Hippolytus this belief is shown in a…