People will think of other people on the basis of the work they do at free-will. However, it is not an ideal treatment for people to blame other people for what they are forced to do. Freedom is compatible with determinism when the behaviour of a person is caused by the preceding factors. Therefore, the causal laws of determinism end up forming the basis of science. Freedom to perform an act is the idea that human beings have the ability to have choices in how they act and taking the assumption that they have the freedom in terms of choosing their behaviour – making them self-determined creatures. Therefore, determinism is the theory implying that all events are determined by prior accordance. Based on this view, it thus implies that all reality is already predetermined or pre-existent, and thus nothing new is to come into existence. The existence of this closed theory of the universe and the human beings holds to the concept that events that occur are simply the effects of other prior effects. The basic problem of free will comes to the notion of moral responsibility.
Particular approaches in psychology see the source of determinism to being outside the individual. The example would apply to the case when a child with violent parents would end up becoming violent parents as well through observation and imitation. Other approaches in psychology would see the source of determinism to be coming from inside an individual through the form of unconscious motivation or generic determinism. So, there is a need to figure out if the pieces that one has is genuine free will that is compatible with determinism. Genuine free will is the kind of free will that is required for moral responsibility and how it is compatible with determinism.
Those people that oppose free will to be compatible with determinism are called libertarians. So the word libertarians in the context of free will refer to those people who think that free will is incompatible with determinism. Therefore, libertarians view determinism in three concepts, hard, soft, and indeterminism. Hard determinists are those people that think that everything is determined, and therefore, it follows from that concept that people are not free and do not have the significant moral freedom (Univerity of Oxford 1). Soft determinism is the concept of which libertarians believe that free will and determinism are compatible ideas and thus implying that it is possible to believe on both without some form of inconsistency. In the case of soft determinism, a libertarian would state that he or she can only be set to be able to do otherwise if it is causally possible in that exact situation to be able to do otherwise. Through indeterminism, libertarians have the view that events are not entirely caused by the prior events.
Therefore, having these definitions in mind, it is possible for one to argue that libertarianism that focuses on the individual freedoms would henceforth be in direct conflict with any other available deterministic philosophies. Libertarians are opposed to both soft and hard determinism because they believe in free choice. Therefore, they would not support the idea that any events were somehow predetermined. On the contrary, libertarians are aligned with indeterminism basing on the idea that both do not believe in the existence of any predetermined causality.
Works Cited
Univerity of Oxford. "7.1 Free Will, Determinism and Choice." YouTube. N.p., 14 Apr. 2011. Web. 26 Mar. 2016. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT6DKn6ZJso>.
