Freedom, Determinism, Death, And Compatibilist Research (Other (Not Listed) Sample)

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Freedom and Determinism
Free will is the idea that people have the ability to make own choices in the present time. On the other hand, Determinism theorizes that all events are necessitated by laws of nature and past experiences. For instance, if I want to watch a movie a might choose to watch a comedy movie over horror movie because I watched a horror movie earlier and I didn’t like it. In this case, it appears that free will is incompatible with determinism. Our lives and thoughts are tied to the view that we have the freedom to make our choices. It would be contradicting arguing that we have freedom if our actions and thoughts have been predestined. Most of us do not like entertaining the idea that we are just cogs in machines as far freedom is concerned. Moreover, our society requires everyone to take personal responsibility for our actions. To that end, believing in determinism will act as a denial of our personal responsibility.
Compatibilist holds that determinism and free will coexist together. In the compatibilist world, our future is predetermined by the laws of nature and past events. Laws of nature and past events influence the future. Choices that face us currently are as a result of choices that faced us in the past. Compatibilists tend to redefine freedom, by incorporating determinism. They argue that determinism enables our will to take moral responsibility for our personal choices and actions. In this case, people are held responsible for their blameworthy and actions given that their act freely without coercion CITATION Bro09 \l 1033 (Brogan ).
If X has done Y freely, it is arguably true that X would have done otherwise. It is because our will in most cases is influenced by many external factors including our peers, celebrities, and our environments. For instance, companies are spending billions of dollars to influence our decision-making in marketplaces. To that end, X would have acted otherwise in the sense that he or she was conditioned to do so by the surrounding environments. In most cases, our actions reflect the conditioning of our parents, friends, and celebrities
According to Shri Krishna, death is a resting room and a significant departure for people who live in the inner life. To him, the body dies but the soul does not, the body perishes but the soul remains. Shri Krishna persuades Arjuna that death is not evil by citing that the body dies, but the soul flies and continues to exist despite the body ceasing to exist. Hence, Arjuna should not be afraid because soul will continue flourishing despite physical death. Furthermore, one should not regret dying young since there is a symmetry between birth and death and all of us will eventually die thus it doesn’t matter if we die early or on a late date.
In convincing, Arjuna to go to war, Shri Krishna does not clearly show that fatalism is true. If the deaths of Arjuna’s relatives and cousins were fated, why does Sri Krishna persuade Arjuna to go to war despite her resistance? There was no need for him to convince Arjuna to go to war if they fate had been sealed. A compatibilist view is the best view to describe this situation. Compatibilism takes into account that even if events have been determined, one can still exercise free will. To that end, given that Kauraya’s were going to d...