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[filed under theme 16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
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Full Idea
People used to believe that the outcome of an action was not a consequence, but an independent, supplemental ingredient, namely God's. Is a greater confusion conceivable?
Gist of Idea
People used to think that outcomes were from God, rather than consequences of acts
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 012)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Dawn (Daybreak) (v 5)', ed/tr. Smith, Brittain [Stanford 2011], p.14
A Reaction
Not sure how well documented or accurate this is, but Nietzsche was a great scholar, and it would explain the fatalism that runs through many older forms of society.
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[natural causes have no room for free will]:
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Some say there is a determinate cause for every apparently spontaneous event
[Democritus, by Aristotle]
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Democritus said atoms only move by their natural motions, which are therefore necessary
[Democritus, by Cicero]
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Democritus said everything happens of necessity, by natural motion of atoms
[Democritus, by Cicero]
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330
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No one wants to be bad, but bad men result from physical and educational failures, which they do not want or choose
[Plato]
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If everything is by necessity, then even denials of necessity are by necessity
[Epicurus]
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When a slave said 'It was fated that I should steal', Zeno replied 'Yes, and that you should be beaten'
[Zeno of Citium, by Diog. Laertius]
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A dog tied to a cart either chooses to follow and is pulled, or it is just pulled
[Zeno of Citium, by Hippolytus]
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Everything is fated, either by continuous causes or by a supreme rational principle
[Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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Chrysippus is wrong to believe in non-occurring future possibilities if he is a fatalist
[Plutarch on Chrysippus]
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Some actions are within our power; determinism needs prior causes for everything - so it is false
[Carneades, by Cicero]
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Whoever knows future causes knows everything that will be
[Cicero]
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If we could foresee the future, we should collaborate with disease and death
[Epictetus]
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If the future does not exist, how can prophets see it?
[Augustine]
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God's universal foreknowledge seems opposed to free will
[Boethius]
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Does foreknowledge cause necessity, or necessity cause foreknowledge?
[Boethius]
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We think we are free because we don't know the causes of our desires and choices
[Spinoza]
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The actual world is the only one God could have created
[Spinoza]
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2119
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People argue for God's free will, but it isn't needed if God acts in perfection following supreme reason
[Leibniz]
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We think we are free because the causes of the will are unknown; determinism is a false problem
[Leibniz]
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If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future
[Laplace]
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We don't control our own thinking
[Schopenhauer]
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Man's actions are not free, because they follow strictly from impact of motive on character
[Schopenhauer]
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People used to think that outcomes were from God, rather than consequences of acts
[Nietzsche]
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That all events are necessary does not mean they are compelled
[Nietzsche]
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To believe in determinism, one must believe in a system which determines events
[Anscombe]
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Determinism threatens free will if actions can be causally traced to external factors
[Foot]
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Determinism says there can't be two identical worlds up to a time, with identical laws, which then differ
[Lewis]
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Every event having a cause, and every event being determined by its cause, are not the same
[Scruton]
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Two versions of quantum theory say that the world is deterministic
[Ladyman/Ross]
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There once was a man who said 'Damn!...
[Sommers,W]
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