julientempone
Nov 19, 2012
Essays / Starting essay with the words shock, apathy, liberation? [8]
or consider many philosophical problems focusing on one as a specific example i.e.
shock - discovering that if the universe were physically deterministic then this seems to render human freedom as illusory, as all thoughts and actions would be the result of a causal chain of events dating back to before your birth.
apathy - becoming fatalistic, desparing at your lack of autonomy or agency or freedom, feeling like a cog incapable of self directed creative action
liberation - discovering that indeterminism provides a possible escape from this conundrum; creating a break in the causal chain of events/or alternatively reconstruing freedom as the ability to act in keeping with your set of core preferences and beliefs irrespective of fatalism and predetermination
or consider many philosophical problems focusing on one as a specific example i.e.
shock - discovering that if the universe were physically deterministic then this seems to render human freedom as illusory, as all thoughts and actions would be the result of a causal chain of events dating back to before your birth.
apathy - becoming fatalistic, desparing at your lack of autonomy or agency or freedom, feeling like a cog incapable of self directed creative action
liberation - discovering that indeterminism provides a possible escape from this conundrum; creating a break in the causal chain of events/or alternatively reconstruing freedom as the ability to act in keeping with your set of core preferences and beliefs irrespective of fatalism and predetermination
