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UNIT 4-Determinism Flashcards

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Determinism

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Determinism – The philosophical position that for every event, including human action, there exist conditions that could cause no other event

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Hard-determinism

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Hard-determinism - is the theory that human behaviour and actions are wholly determined by external factors, and therefore humans do not have genuine free will or ethical accountability

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Soft-determinism

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Soft-determinism - is the theory that human behaviour and actions are wholly determined by causal events, but human free will does exist when defined as the capacity to act according to one’s nature

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