 | In my own words
philosophically, religion can become simplistic by the distinction between objective truths, (correspondence between facts and beliefs) and subjective truths, (commitment to ideas and beliefs) - religion is characterised not by objective truths but subjective truths - religion is made meaningful and relevant by our commitment to beliefs and what people want from life. Such commitment is self-validating and impervious to external skeptical critique - it is either something we have or something we don't, but not something which can be justified to others through reference to objective truths |
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| | | Chess has rules in which no information is hidden from players and no random events happen in the game. Yet chess can still have a large number of unpredictable moves. By analogy, this suggest that the experience of choice emerges from the interaction of finite rules and deterministic parameters that generate infinite and unpredictable behaviour. Yet, if all these events were accounted for, and there were a known way to evaluate these events, the seemingly unpredictable becomes predictable |
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My Eternal Dilemma...
if people are incapable of free will, there can then be no rational basis for morality, and thus some aspects of criminal and civil jurisprudence and legislation appear irrational. How, can one be punished for an involuntary action? In order to maintain the integrity of social institutions that rely on holding people responsible for their actions, it's necessary in their eyes to deny determinism, at least as far as it applies to what we ordinarily call voluntary actions |
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