Unit 1: Core theme — Being human
Topic 1.6: Freedom Questions
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The waiter who plays his role so completely he acts as if he has no options is an example of:
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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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The key difference between socialization and social conditioning is that:
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Free will is tied to moral responsibility because:
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Why is 'a river does what it wants' NOT an example of free will?
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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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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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A top-band Paper 1 Section A answer on freedom actually:
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The question of 'free will' is really asking whether:
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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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Authenticity, for the existentialists, means:
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Where do Sartre and Epictetus actually AGREE?
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The 'domino' argument concludes that:
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Fill the gap with one word: the standard test of free will is whether, at the moment of choosing, you could have done ______.
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Fill the gap with one word: a hard determinist says free will is an ______ — the causes were there all along, we just don't see them.
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Even when you can't control your situation, authenticity says you can still:
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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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