Welcome Secularone. Welcome to the forums.
I believe in Evidence and the importance of being moral, and I'm also a moral relativist. I too, also believe empathy is of high importance.
At most I can accept a compatabilist definition of 'free will', it's just that I'd call that freedom, and will, but not 'free will' - I think it's perhaps misleading to label it 'free will' if it's compatible with determinism, I'm not sure I agree with labelling that way (although that may change as I'm reading - and so far, thoroughly enjoying - 'Freedom Evolves' by Dan Dennett, who believes in 'free will' and labels it as such, but in the compatibilist sense.).
I'm not sure whether I believe in indeterminism or determinism because I don't really know of either much, just that I've heard that quantum mechanics supports indeterminism, although I've also heard that this may be 'jumping the gun' or something like that....
So the subject of 'free will', is a very big thing for me, and I do believe in it in the compatiblist sense (any definition of 'free will' completely compatible with a fully determined future, a fully deterministic universe), it's just I personally wouldn't call it 'free will'. At least for now - for now I think it's misleading since many seem to think of a very different definition when they think of 'free will' at least implicitly if they don't really mull it over.
I would say I believe in 'forgiveness', but personally, for me, I perhaps don't because ideally I believe in not holding any grudges in the first place - so there's nothing to forgive in the first place, it isn't needed - and I believe that 'revenge' in and of itself is purely destructive. That's what I aim for rather than forgiveness, and I seem to be doing a good job on that ever since I've had this view.
EvF
I believe in Evidence and the importance of being moral, and I'm also a moral relativist. I too, also believe empathy is of high importance.
At most I can accept a compatabilist definition of 'free will', it's just that I'd call that freedom, and will, but not 'free will' - I think it's perhaps misleading to label it 'free will' if it's compatible with determinism, I'm not sure I agree with labelling that way (although that may change as I'm reading - and so far, thoroughly enjoying - 'Freedom Evolves' by Dan Dennett, who believes in 'free will' and labels it as such, but in the compatibilist sense.).
I'm not sure whether I believe in indeterminism or determinism because I don't really know of either much, just that I've heard that quantum mechanics supports indeterminism, although I've also heard that this may be 'jumping the gun' or something like that....
So the subject of 'free will', is a very big thing for me, and I do believe in it in the compatiblist sense (any definition of 'free will' completely compatible with a fully determined future, a fully deterministic universe), it's just I personally wouldn't call it 'free will'. At least for now - for now I think it's misleading since many seem to think of a very different definition when they think of 'free will' at least implicitly if they don't really mull it over.
I would say I believe in 'forgiveness', but personally, for me, I perhaps don't because ideally I believe in not holding any grudges in the first place - so there's nothing to forgive in the first place, it isn't needed - and I believe that 'revenge' in and of itself is purely destructive. That's what I aim for rather than forgiveness, and I seem to be doing a good job on that ever since I've had this view.
EvF
