here is what I have so far…please dont laugh:
In comparison with the positivist view, the traditional view is fundamentally sound Did you define both?. Furthermore, since human beings have a free will they are morally responsible for their actions.An assumed fact or what you will try to justify? Need to be clearer–should be the latter, by the way
Human beings have a free will in which they can choose to do one thing or anotherDo you mean by free will the ability to choose otherwise? Are you claiming to show this or assuming this as a fact?. Throughout the evolutionary process, man has always been free. From thousands of years ago up to this point we have been free to make our own decisions We have seemed to be free, yes. There were early determinists, like the Stoics, for example. When humans are faced with a choice, that choice is an instantaneous event that has nothing to do with heredity. Choices are instinctNot clear. If instantaneous, then how is their time for the deliberation that seems required for moral responsibility? If instantaneous, then why not automatic, instinctive, or hard-wired?ual, governed by the activity in our brain. For example, think of an infant and the choices it makesNot clear that infants make choices. Very much so for morally responsible choices. On what evidence or reasoning is this assumption made?. It chooses to cry when it wants something and it chooses to smile at a familiar face These are often understood as hard-wired.. Where is the heredity in this case? The infant could be three months old, or a year old; it doesn’t matter. This governing principle is with us our entire life. We choose because we can choose.The determinist can allow, and try to explain, that we think we choose; their claim is this experience is wrong. Furthermore, there may be factors that influence our choices, but they don’t dictate them. On the other hand, there are others who share an opposing view Is this taken to be the only alternative? Free will, determinism? Hard determinism and soft determinism are often distinguished..
Robert Blatchford’s view is that all choices are caused by heredity and environmentHe would point to your examples above to support or illustrate his point. RobertProper to use last name–“Blatchford says…” says that our nature and our training make us decide to do good or evil. He goes on to say that, “the will is not free, if it were free man could not know right from wrong until he was taught” (Blatchford, p. 34). For example, when a man hesitates between doing one thing or another, the conflict is between his temperament and his training not his supposed free will. He also states that we can “foretell the action of certain men in certain cases” (Blatchford, p. 38). What about his appeal to science? Furthermore, we can do this because each man’s heredity and environment will determine the choice each man makes in each certain case. However, with that said, human beings do have a free will that is not dictated by heredity and environmentThis will require some serious argument..
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