5088 | Some say there is a determinate cause for every apparently spontaneous event [Democritus, by Aristotle] |
21670 | Democritus said atoms only move by their natural motions, which are therefore necessary [Democritus, by Cicero] |
6033 | Democritus said everything happens of necessity, by natural motion of atoms [Democritus, by Cicero] |
330 | No one wants to be bad, but bad men result from physical and educational failures, which they do not want or choose [Plato] |
14521 | If everything is by necessity, then even denials of necessity are by necessity [Epicurus] |
1770 | 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] |
3799 | A dog tied to a cart either chooses to follow and is pulled, or it is just pulled [Zeno of Citium, by Hippolytus] |
20808 | Everything is fated, either by continuous causes or by a supreme rational principle [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius] |
20835 | Chrysippus is wrong to believe in non-occurring future possibilities if he is a fatalist [Plutarch on Chrysippus] |
21391 | Some actions are within our power; determinism needs prior causes for everything - so it is false [Carneades, by Cicero] |
6029 | Whoever knows future causes knows everything that will be [Cicero] |
20875 | If we could foresee the future, we should collaborate with disease and death [Epictetus] |
5982 | If the future does not exist, how can prophets see it? [Augustine] |
5768 | God's universal foreknowledge seems opposed to free will [Boethius] |
5769 | Does foreknowledge cause necessity, or necessity cause foreknowledge? [Boethius] |
4311 | We think we are free because we don't know the causes of our desires and choices [Spinoza] |
7828 | The actual world is the only one God could have created [Spinoza] |
2119 | People argue for God's free will, but it isn't needed if God acts in perfection following supreme reason [Leibniz] |
7841 | We think we are free because the causes of the will are unknown; determinism is a false problem [Leibniz] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
21477 | We don't control our own thinking [Schopenhauer] |
4170 | Man's actions are not free, because they follow strictly from impact of motive on character [Schopenhauer] |
20231 | People used to think that outcomes were from God, rather than consequences of acts [Nietzsche] |
23210 | That all events are necessary does not mean they are compelled [Nietzsche] |
8352 | To believe in determinism, one must believe in a system which determines events [Anscombe] |
22371 | Determinism threatens free will if actions can be causally traced to external factors [Foot] |
8424 | Determinism says there can't be two identical worlds up to a time, with identical laws, which then differ [Lewis] |
3892 | Every event having a cause, and every event being determined by its cause, are not the same [Scruton] |
14939 | Two versions of quantum theory say that the world is deterministic [Ladyman/Ross] |
12410 | There once was a man who said 'Damn!... [Sommers,W] |