Living as a determinist
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Living as a determinist
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The question is its own answer. People and society would do what people and society have just done, in the preceding second, minuet, hour, century, millenia - right back to the big bang.
Assuming determinism involes a paradox. If we know whatever happens was going to happen anyway, we stop. There's no point doing anything because we know that everything we were going to do we are going to do, irrespective of will. Thus, no will, no decision, no action.
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The ethical implications of determinism are outlined by the Jewish, Pharisaic version of Jesus before Paul Romanised and supernaturalised him.
The political implications of determinism lean to left wing.This can be seen in forms of punishment for crimes in which the 'punishment' aims to help the criminal to be more reasoning and more sympathetic and thus a better citizen, rather than aiming to be society's revenge for the crime.
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Assuming determinism involes a paradox. If we know whatever happens was going to happen anyway, we stop. There's no point doing anything because we know that everything we were going to do we are going to do, irrespective of will. Thus, no will, no decision, no action.
describes fatalism, not determinism, of which fatalism is a dysfunctional offshoot. The fact is that we dont know what is going to happen anyway and so we retain our life hopes and work accordingly with full personal responsibility.
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Considering scientific ways of explaining the world, quantum physics are the general opinion of how to describe the universe. I know a basic share of quantum physics, but I don't know if it is compatible with (newtonian?) determinism. Do anyone here have any opinions on that?
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