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Determinism W (lemmygrad.ml)
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[-] Maoo@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

Marx is a 19th century German philosopher, though his philosophy was dead-set on building a framework for overthrowing capitalism. Diamat is weird German philosophy, it's about 80% of why it's so hard to understand in the first place.

So, philosophy nerds tend to separate determinism from free will for the purpose of asking whether they are compatible. When I see people saying free will doesn't exist, that determinism is instead what's up, and that science is saying things about the matter, I interpret you're an incompatibilist that believes in a materialist determinism and an absence of free will. I see other folks in the comments making similar statements, including fatalistic ones.

So where am I going wrong?

[-] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago

You're wrong in assuming free will does exist. I'm agnostic about hard line determinism, I just use it as a stand in for the antithesis of assuming there is free will. I've said this before, but "free will" assumes a human above nature and a soul like entity. I refer you to the Lemmygrad side for what does exist if there's no free will.

[-] Maoo@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

When I said, "where am I going wrong?" I was obviously referring to the summary I had just given, none of which included "I assume free will exists".

So, were am I going wrong in that summary?

[-] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago

The summary is pretty much correct, but I can not tell if you have held on to your initial position that compatibilism is correct. One of the first comments science cannot prove the existence of free will, but I have yet to see even a coherent philosophical argument for it.

[-] Maoo@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

You are incorrect about what things I've said but it's become redundant with the other threads so I'm going to stop replying to this particular chain.

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