Free Will: Choice, Determinism, and Human Freedom 🇸🇪
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Hi everyone
Human beings experience themselves as free in many cases.
We make choices, feel responsible, regret actions, and imagine alternatives
But are we truly free?
Or are our thoughts, desires, personality, biology, and environment already determining what we do before we become aware of it?
This discussion explores the nature of free will, determinism, responsibility, consciousness, and human agency
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Important Thinker
Baruch Spinoz
Argued that humans believe themselves free only because they are unaware of the causes determining them
Key idea
Freedom may be understanding necessity
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David Hum
Defended compatibilism
free will and causation may coexist
Key idea
Freedom means acting according to one’s motives without external coercion
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Immanuel Kan
Believed morality requires freedom
Key idea
We must assume freedom in order to hold people morally responsible
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Jean-Paul Sartr
One of the strongest defenders of radical freedom
Key idea
Humans are “condemned to be free.
Even refusing to choose is itself a choice
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Friedrich Nietzsch
Criticized traditional notions of free will as moral constructions tied to guilt and punishment
Key idea
Free will may be invented to justify blame
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Sam Harri
Contemporary critic of free will
Key idea
Thoughts and intentions arise before conscious control
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Benjamin Libe
Famous for experiments suggesting the brain initiates actions before conscious awareness
Key idea
The brain may “decide” before consciousness does
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Two-Hour Discussion Structur
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Part I — What Is Free Will? (20 min
- What do we mean by “free will”?
- What makes an action truly free?
- Is freedom the ability to do otherwise?
- Are humans more free than animals?
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Part II — Experience of Choice (20 min
- Why do we feel free?
- Can we directly experience free will?
- Have you ever made a completely spontaneous decision?
- Are our desires chos
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Stora Nygatan 31, meetup1, Stockholm
