The compatibilistic point of view has some similarities with the deterministic point of view; they also suppose that the idea of free choice is not real as all our decisions are determined by the causes.

But the fact is that compatibilists think that it is possible to connect the notion of free choice and the notion of caused choice. According to their name they try to prove that free choice and determination could be compatible, in other word they have the opportunity to co-operate in one field.

Nowadays, a great variety of such models can create compatibility. One of the most popular models proposed by A.J. Ayer published in his work ‘Freedom and Necessity’.

It is based on the moral principles which should be followed by each person when he or she is going to make a free choice in order to reach the goal. Well, in order to do such actions the person should have freedom for it and here the problem appears connected to the deterministic point of view about the causality of freedom.

Ayer tries to contrast freedom and causality using some limitations. He points that if the person has the reasons for the action it does not mean that he or she is limited. So, our actions are determined only at that case when the person is not free or obliges to be limited.

Well, here is the time to decide when and under which circumstances the person could be constrained. As for Ayer, he proposed three situations. Firstly, if the person has the ability to redone it, secondly, when the actions have deliberate character, and, finally, there is nobody who can force the person to do it. So, if one of such situation is not present only then we can say that there is no place for free choice.

The example of constraint actions can be the case with kleptomaniac, or if someone pushed you to do something and for its purpose uses the gun.

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Posted: November 10th, 2007 under Free Choice, Freedom, Action, Compatibalism, Ayer.
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If we want to be called as human beings we should be able to be responsible for our actions and desires. But nowadays every one has the possibility not to be bounded by different limitations and to have the right for free choice.

In our live it is very important to be aware of the fact whether we are able to make a choice or not. Probably, for the first time it looks like very easy to give the answer about our personal abilities but if it look closer the possibility of intuitively answer is not really possible. So, in order to give the answer on such question we should return to the Greek and Roman times, because nowadays it has the same condition as it was there, and even now we have some problems with its decisions.

The problem of free choice can stand at the same place, it is changing. There were proposed two main conceptions which have the powers to produce some kind of solution the problem. So, there are the conception of determinism and the conception of compatibalism. Let’s see the essence of these two conceptions.

But before we start the descriptive talking it is very important to be sure that we have a certain question concerning a free choice. The notion of a free choice and just a choice can be regarded as synonyms. The meaning of choice is rather general; it means the decision that could be done by the person. So, such under the necessary interpretation of choice we see action of the person and it turned to be a kind of guide line for us.

Well, the problem of free choice lies on the next statement: whether we are able to choose or not. If we remember that choice is a kind of decision, we should redo the question and ask whether we are able to make a decision at a certain period of time without using different alternative prepositions which could be limited.

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Posted: November 2nd, 2007 under Free Choice, Decision, Problem, Possibility.
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In order to give the answer on the question concerning a free choice in our life it is very important to take into consideration two main conceptions: determinism and compatibilitism.

So, the first ones are the determinists. The representatives of such theory strongly supposed that the human beings can not have the possibilities to make a free choice. They stick to the point that all our decisions, actions and choices are already determined. In order not only to say about their ideas let’s give an example of the determinization of the person’s decisions.

The student has the task to write a work, but at the same time the student is eager to go to a party. So, the student should think and estimate the situation whether he or she really wants to go to the party and to write the task, and even tries to look into the future in order to see the consequences of the actions.

Comparing the degree of desires the student makes up the mind to go to the party. For the first time it looks like a free choice, but the determinists propose the other point of view. It is not a free choice, but very composite mechanism of work and as result of the work the decision was determined.

The choice to go to the party was caused by the previous visiting of the party as there was a meeting with an interesting person and the line of such consequences could be continued a lot. The point is that the decision of the student was determined by many factors which were before, so the described above choice was not free by nature, but determined by causes.

So, it is impossible to the person with the ability of free choice because our actions can not be done without any specific reason for it and that is why a free choice problem does not exist.

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Posted: October 16th, 2007 under Conception, Free Choice, Determinist, Decision.
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