Unit 1: Core theme — Being human
Topic 1.6: Freedom Questions
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On Dennett's view, you act freely when you:
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True or false? Bad faith is using a role ('just the job') or a fixed nature ('it's just how I am') to excuse a choice you're actually making.
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Authenticity, for the existentialists, means:
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Determinism is the view that:
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Why is 'a river does what it wants' NOT an example of free will?
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In Dennett's shop example, the shoplifter is free but the person dragged out at gunpoint is not, because:
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On the standard test, you act with free will when:
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Socialization (as opposed to conditioning) tends to:
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The hard determinist's 'medical model' of justice suggests we should:
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Seeing freedom as coming 'in degrees' suggests that:
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Fill the gap with one word: van Inwagen is an ______ — he says free will and determinism cannot both be true.
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True or false? 'Free will' means you could genuinely have done otherwise — not merely that you got what you wanted.
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Where do Sartre and Epictetus actually AGREE?
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Fill the gap with one word: the existentialists call living as your own true self, owning your choices, ______.
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Fill the gap with one word: unlike determinism (physics), the conditioning worry is that ______ and institutions shape what you want.
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The question of 'free will' is really asking whether:
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Free will is tied to moral responsibility because:
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For Sartre, 'angst' is:
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True or false? Determinism says that, given everything that came before, only one outcome was ever really possible.
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True or false? Sartre and Epictetus agree freedom lives in your response, but split on whether it feels like a burden or a relief.
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