Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 4:05 pmyour decisions will come out of your goals, desires, values and affected to some degree by circumstance and what you think the situation is.
You talk of these -- goals, desires, values -- as though they were items I acquire, that are some how apart from me.
I value, I desire, I goal-set. These are things I do.
And, yes, history and circumstance inform my choices, but they do not determine my choices (my choosing).
Given that you have roots, values, temperment, desires, what you choose is caused by what has gone before/what is before in you.
I am not obligated by biology, psychology, or the
laws of physics to fear dogs becuz I was bitten by one. The event informed me, it didn't, necessarily,
infirm me. I choose where I stand when it comes to dogs. Not the unfortunate event.
A determinist does not have to believe...
A necessitarian, if necessitarianism is true, doesn't actually believe anything anymore than the free will, if neccessitarianism is true, is actually free.
if necessitarianism is true, we're all utterly mired in causal chains. Our thoughts, which seem original to us, couldn't be anything other than what they are. Our choices aren't choices at all. They're events issuing forth from events.