Title: Determinism - By Branch / Doctrine - The Basics of Philosophy
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Determinism
Content: Some, however, argue that, through an extended period of social development, a confluence of events could have formed to generate the very idea of morals and ethics in our minds (a sort of chicken and egg situation). Interpretation of Determinism
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Determinism can be interpreted in two main way: Incompatibilism is the belief that Free Will and Determinism are logically incompatible categories and therefore mutually exclusive. This could include believing that Determinism is the reality, and therefore Free Will is an illusion (known as Hard Determinism ); or that Free Will is true, and therefore Determinism is not (known as Libertarianism ); or even that neither Determinism nor Free Will is true (known as Pessimistic Incompatibilism ). Compatibilism is the belief that Free Will and Determinism can be compatible ideas, and that it is possible to believe both without being logically inconsistent. By this definition, Free Will is not the ability to choose as an agent independent of prior cause, but as an agent who is not forced to make a certain choice. This leads to the position of Soft Determinism, proposed by the American Pragmatist William James on the grounds that thorough-going, or Hard, Determinism leads either to a bleak pessimism or to a degenerate subjectivism in moral judgment
History of Determinism
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In Buddhism, there is a theory called Dependent Origination (or Dependent Arising ), which is similar to the Western concept of Determinism. Roughly speaking, it states that phenomena arise together in a mutually interdependent web of cause and effect, and that every phenomenon is conditioned by, and depends on, every other phenomena.