Can You Please Give Me Some Inside/ideas on What to Include in This Paper?
Question by zlosnica_13: Can you please give me some inside/ideas on what to include in this paper?
Here is the question, I dont want you to do my homework for me, just help me get some ideas of what to write in it, its for philosophy and I am not so good with it.
Thank you
For most of our history, drug addiction has been viewed as a weakness of the will, an inability to control one’s desires but now there is a growing consensus in the medical and treatment communities that addiction is a disease. What is the relevance of the Free Will/Determinism debate for this shift in thinking about drug addiction?
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Answer by Molecular Mass
They are not relevant at all as both free will and determinism are fatally flawed concepts. Neither has anything to do with reality and they are not useful metaphors. Both were derived from religious problem concerning the soul and its relationship to God. Since neither souls nor God can be verified, it is likely that neither exists. This in part removes the importance of the concepts.
Free will can be shown to be a poor idea as it is not clear what is free nor free from what? It is clear that we have a SENSE of free will but it is only a sense. If you think it is the self that is free then you need to research the empirical verifications that the self is not in control so it is not making the decisions so it cannot be what is free.
On the other hand, determinism is also invalid as a concept. The key to understanding why is to understand that the world is so complex that it is impossible to determine or predict most anything accurately. We do better with weather than most anything and that is often wrong. If we cannot determine then the future is indeterminate, that is it cannot be determined and determinism fails. There are also underlying reasons that are too lengthy to write here bringing in the ideas of emergent and supervened phenomena.
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