Freedom Evolves (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
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- Author: Daniel C. Dennett
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Philosophy
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy
- Subjects: Freedom, Philosophy or philosophers, Science or scientists, Human race, Consciousness, Morality or morals, Evolution, Altruism
One of the greatest philosophical dilemmas posed by the development of the modern scientific view of the world concerns the place of human beings in this view. Scientific thinking is based on determinism, an understanding of all things as material objects linked in chains of causes and effects. Anything that happens must happen because something has caused it to happen. If human beings live inside such a chain, though, then all the things that people do are consequences of other events, such as environmental or biological occurrences. To many thinkers, such a perspective implies that...
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