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The word good can be a variety of things, but the actual meaning is to be desired or approved of. Although on the other hand, the word evil means profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force. Based on the relationship between good and evil I believe that evil implies good but good does not imply evil. Good is its own measure, Good is not measured by evil. We do not determine how good something is based upon an evil standard. On the other hand, evil

his/her action they must take into account that the decision being made was from their own free-will. Leading us now to whether human beings have free will or is it determined. If we were to say determinism is true, then no individual should be praised or punished for their actions due to the fact it was not based on their own free action. If free-will applies, he/she who commits an act practicing their own free-will deserves to be praised or punished for such an act. It could be argued that due to

question it must be taken into account that God gives created wills “the potential for rectitude” (OCV 4.307). God is a phenomenon that accompanies sin and wickedness. The act of something being wicked though, is assigned to a creature. Because we have free will, we may choose not to act upon the rectitude that is offered to us by God, which will lead us to stray away from his goodness and thus leads us to commit sin. An objection to this one of Ockham’s claims comes from Scotus. Scotus claims that, “

Free will represents an impact between two opposite perspectives. From a metaphysics perspective we wonder If we don't have free will then why are we here? What is the point of life if we cannot choose our course of actions. But from a scientific perspective we have questions like is it possible that anything can happen without having it be caused by something else? Some things really can't be described within the science that we all rely on. It makes people have free choices that forms who they

Everyone is entitled to a certain destiny, even if it doesn’t seem like it’s going to end up in a specific way. In other words, some people believe they have a life to fulfill like a story plot. Others believe they chose what they want do every step of the way which will affect their future. In William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters try to avoid devastation from their love, but what they didn’t know was it was unavoidable from the beginning. The play is filled with

The liberation of knowing that humanity’s actions are out of their control is quite comforting yet hard to accept. However, the burden of knowing that one bears the responsibility for his actions somehow seems easier to accept than the absence of free will. This begs the question, assuming fate is a supernatural force, how far does it go? Throughout Virgil’s The Aeneid, many of the characters view fate and destiny as basic parts of life. The gods recognize that even with all of their power they

One word that is powerful known to man is the word “choice.” In our lifetime, we are bombarded with choices so that we have to make in order to help shape our lives. We don’t know if our rights will outweigh our wrongs but we have to try. Commonly we are held to culture value. What I mean by that is, we typically set standards on several scales of right or wrong, acceptable or unacceptable to important or unimportant within society. However, along with these set standards, we’re still held accountable

Fate is defined as “The development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power.” In Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet, the uncontrollable force brings the lovers together and changes the plot as the story continues. Each character has seemed to make decisions, but the main idea of the plot and events point to destiny. The lovers try to challenge their outcome, but still they succumb to the capability of this power. The audience know fate is to blame for the

A question which still puzzles many people is do we have free will or is our every decision predetermined? I believe that our every decision is based on free will because when we make the decision to do something, we risk our lives everyday doing what we want rather than just letting things happen such as fate. I think our every decision is based on free will because we decide whether we want to go out and party on a Saturday night or if we want to stay in the house. We decide whether we want to

Free will does not exist because if it did then all the knowledge we have accumulated from our past experiences wouldn’t affect the choices we make in the present. The existence of free will also means that the destiny which God has chosen for us doesn’t exist because we would be free to create our own destiny. On the contrary hard determinism dose exist as it is supported by more theories in psychology than free will and because we constantly make decisions to live the lifestyle that has been chosen