About this chapter in the book, we can start about talking about if our actions are that really voluntary, as they seem they are. But when we talk about voluntary and you start thinking, its gets more complicated than we thought is not just the voluntary where you just do the things you want, sometimes you make your actions because you have to do them for the best. For example if you are in a building on fire and you have to go out, you will find any way to go out and survive even trough the fire, you made the actions but that does not means that you wanted to get burned by the fire. But you decided to do it so that is what we call freedom responding as we wish to with our free will.
Why do we still have the freedom to choose between good or bad, yes or no, everything; if it can be possible that our life have been already planed by someone else and no response can change my future because what happens was meant to happen any way. Depending on your culture, religious and other thinks this may change a lot but stills keeps you thinking about our freedom that we have or a least that we suppose to have.
Really nice blog, Andrea, I think you have made a good point by asking what if our lives have already been planned for us. But I think that life has not been planned and that the decisions we make are the ones that continue to create our lives. This is what freedom is made for.
ResponderEliminarAndrea I liked what you wrote about this chapter, I know that we all have the freedom to choose what we want, we are free to decide what to do, but that “freedom” sometimes is kind of complicated to describe, because if you are in a situation like the one of the Capitan, well yes you have the freedom to choose to drew the cargo or not, but you have to do it not because you want to, but just because it has to be like that to survive, I see this kind of complicated to be free, because even do you don’t want to do something, you have to do it for some extreme reason that force you to do that action.
ResponderEliminarWe still have freedom because we have the hope it could be different, and according to theological arguments, we received hope from grace, so it is like the option, the mistery that everything could turn better or in the way we wanted to be, because deep in the laws of the universe there could exist that unequality which lets something regarded as impossible to be possible.
ResponderEliminarAndrea very nice post! I think humanity as species have in some moments characteristics of our race which affect the patron of living and by this, affect our decisions, but I think it is just part of our species and not that we are not free to choose or that in some moments we choose that which was not meant to be chosen because it was not a decision of ours.
ResponderEliminarIt is true, our freedom is in some ways restrain by our moral, sometimes we act according to what we should do, according to what is right more than to what we really want. It is hard to say if we are absolutely free or if our actions are already determined by that sense of moral and responsibility.
ResponderEliminarAndrea, I agree with Mariana and with you, oour freedom is in some ways restrain by our moral, and I like that because we do things that we don't even think about, I mean we do it by instinct or by what we think is the best for us, but we don't do it by how it has to be done and that is when we do things wrong.
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