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Free Will or Determinism in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In five pages this paper argues that instead of free will Oedipus is instead controlled by determinism in this tragic play by Soph...

Analysis of the Determinism Philosophy

In five pages this research paper analyzes determinism as it was developed through the writings of Baruch Spinoza, B.F. Skinner, a...

Genetic Predisposition as Reflected in The Moral Animal

This ten paper paper broaches the concept of biological determinism as it is perceived by Robert Wright. Evolutionary physiology ...

Biological Determinism

In three page this paper examines biological determinism in a brief overview that references Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist. ...

Dialectic Determinism in The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

In eight pages The Communist Manifesto and its as well as other works' representation of the dialectic determinism theory are disc...

Themes in Dostoyevsky's Novel, Notes From The Underground

demonstrate how utilitarianism appears to have the peoples best interest in mind; however, that extension is limited to the number...

New Darwinist Theories on Biological Determinism

In five pages this paper examines biological determinism from the perspectives of recent Darwinist theories and how justice is onl...

Theory of Technological Determinism

In eleven pages this paper examines technological determinism in this consideration of 3 articles which contain supporting argumen...

Society and Free Will

In three pages this paper exmaines individual responsibility and social determinism as discussed in articles written by Walter Sta...

Free Will, Determinism, and David Hume

In five pages Hume's views on free will and determinism are examined within the context of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understandi...

Rostand, Hesse, Camus on Free Will v. Determinism

In 5 pages determinism is defined and its philosophical interpretations are examined within the contexts of Rostand's Cyrano de Be...

Determinism, Free Will, and James Cagney

In five pages the determinism and free will philosophies of Richard Taylor, Walter T. Stace, and Baron D'Holbach are applied to th...

Determinism, Free Will, and the Fate of Humanity

by the reasons and values which occupy the highest, conscious level of our organismic structure" (Bissell, no date, p. indexmm1.ht...

Human Action Determination According to George Edward Moore and B.F. Skinner

In five pages human behavior is examined from the perspectives of B.F. Skinner's theories concerning modification and determinism ...

Debate Regarding Determinism versus Free Will

In five pages this paper examines the philosophical debate regarding determinism versus free will with the use of the texts Donald...

Calvinist Perspective on Determinism and Free Will

In some way, Calvinism gave them comfort. They were living a certain way, but it was Gods influence so it was okay. In many ways, ...

Richard Taylor, Fatalism, and Determinism

states that all events are reliant on previous events (Honderich 194). In other words, any event is an effect of a prior series of...

Psychological Indeterminism and Determinism

science, man used to think himself a free agent possessing free will. Science gives us, instead, causal determinism wherein every...

Determinism and Free Will

In a paper consisting of five pages the extent of free will in light of behavior determinism is assessed. Two sources are cited i...

Philosophy and Freedom

In fifteen pages the freedom concept is examined within the context of the philosophies of existentialism, predestination, determi...

Economic Determinism and its Relevance

Historical materialism, or dialectical material, as described by Marx and Engels, involves the notion that there is a progression ...

Attitudes and Free Will in the Book of Genesis and Paradise Lost by John Milton

in clear opposition to what is found in Genesis. The student will want to point out that Adam and Eve can easily relate...

The Philosophies of David Hume and Rene Descartes Applied to the Abortion Issue

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers and Criminological Theories

commit violent criminal acts" (Nottingham Screening DNA: Exploring the Cinema-Genetics Interface). Furthermore, according to "gen...

The Odyssey and The Alchemist: Free Will, Determinism, and the Journeys

not something he will believe as he has already made a choice to be a shepherd and not a priest which is what was determined for h...

The Free Will Problem

determinism. It is often the case that philosophers see determinism as being the opposite of freedom or free will. That is, most ...

James/Determinism & Descartes/Radical Doubt

rising above childhoods of extreme poverty or abuse, yet cases do occur. James second argument in defense of free will point to th...

The Problem of Free Will and How It is Treated in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

"Open Boat," Free Will, Determinism

This essay pertains to the use of free will and determinism in Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat." Five pages in length, two sources ...

Observational Learning and Free Will

discipline of marketing and advertising, and indeed the entire basis of consumer society, is predicated upon an assumption of free...