"punishment is not
admissible unless the
offender has free will to
select his course"
External forces caused the
boys to commit that crime
Predestination
Augustine and Divine
Election
Whoever receives God's grace would
ultimately do good and therefore be
saved
John Calvin
God decides independently
of a persons qualities or
actions.
He chooses who will be saved and who
will go their natural ways, ie sin
"He does not create everyone
in the same condition but in
eternal life is for-ordained for
some, and eternal damnation
for other." (Institutes of
Christian Religion)
Critiques
Arminius- "predestination was
contrary to God's gift of free
will."
Antinomianism, if predestination
is true there is no obligation to
follow the moral law
Predestination completely goes
against the teachings of Jesus and
the bible in general.
Hard Determinism
"Everything in the universe, including all human
actions has a cause which precedes it"(Palmer)
Ted Honderich
Nothing happens without reason (Aristotle), and
the reason for everything is out of humans control
Everything a human does, is because of what has already happened
Humans aren't morally responsible for their actions
Pierre-Simon de Laplace
Every human action could be predicted
if every single factor was known
"Human beings are like complicated bits of
machinary....the performances of which are theoretically
predictable once these factors are known."
Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza
"Those who believe that when they speak,
or are silent, or do anything else from a free
decree of the mind, dream with their eyes
open." (Spinoza)
Freedom is an illusion of the mind
John Locke
A man is in a locked
room but he wishes
to remain in the
room, not knowing it
is locked
We believe our actions are free, but they
are not
Role of Science
John Watson
We live in a deterministic universe,
everything is based upon cause and effect
Nature
"The inheritance of a body and certain
psychological features
Nurture
Manipulation of a man's surroundings
could effect his behaviour
Pavlov
Conditioning dogs
Zimbardo
Stanford Prison Experiment
Karl Marx
Working people were
controlled by structural
effect of society
Thomas Sowell
"human self is infinitely
plastic, allowing humanity
to be changed."