Free Will
Paul Holbach: Determinism is the Incompatible with Free Will Free will defined in Webster’s Dictionary is the power of making free choices by outer agencies, and the ability or judgment to choose. In the Christian point of view, free will is what separates us form the animals. It is because we have free will we are able to identify what is good and bad. Free will is understood that all human beings have the ability to due what they want to do, and live there life by there own choices. But how can we know if we truly have free will, what if free will is only an illusion that the human mind has created for us. Do we really make choices in our life because we want to or because we have to? According to Holbach, free will is an illusion that the human mind has created for us. He claims that free will is caused by the environment around us and that motivates our choices in life. These motives can create wish in our mind that can effect our actions. He says that our actions are a result from our choices that we make, and every choice that we make is a result from a cause. He believes that there is no such thing as a pure choice out of free will. He thinks that our actions are made not because we want to but because we need to. These choices can be a result from past experience or motivations from time situations. To give an example a student that goes to school, you could say that the student is going to school because he wants to go, but why would a child want to go to school? The answer is simple It is because there are motives that are making the student want to go to school. These motives can be subconsciously made for the student. This example proves that to make a choice out of free will then the student must make his choice whether he wants to go to school with out any motive, but for the human mind this is an impossible decision. To succeed in life one must attend school, and to succeed in school one must study hard. This leaves the student