(October 2, 2012 at 12:37 am)Polaris Wrote: Humans have free will, but that is not to say that their actions have not been predetermined, but there is free will because unlike the beliefs of the Ancient Greeks, for the most part, people are not knowledge about their fate. The loss of free will is knowing your fate and you not being able to do anything to alter its course.
"The power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion."
Actually, even if we don't have free will, experiences will still affect our actions. So if we knew what we were going to do in advance, this knowledge would change things and possibly result in a different future (which goes without saying if we do have free will).
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
