200211 slide Headings
The History of Free Will
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Previous Lecture: General Scope of the Problem of Free Will
An Intuitive Sense of Freedom and Belief in Free Will
Our Shared Intuitive Sense of Free Will 5:14
Cause and Effect: Everything Is Dependent on What Came Before 5:52
What if the Sum of All Past Causes Guarantee the Effect? 7:04
What if Our Pre-Determined Choices were Freely Chosen? 7:38
Are You Free if You Think You're Free? 9;13
Tonight's Goal: Historical Development of the Idea of Free Will 11:29
Earliest Origins of the Idea of Free Will 11:43
Even Free Men and Kings Are Subject to Constraints 12:30
The Idea of Inevitable Fate 13::50
It Doesn't Matter What You Do to Try to Avoid Your Fate 16:09
It Doesn't Matter What You Do to Try to Avoid Your Fate 2 17:59
The Fates Personified 19:32
Even the Gods Are Subject to Fate 20:24
In a World Governed by Fate, Does Anyone Have Free Will? 21:55
The "Lazy Argument" against the Idea of Fate 23:04
Another Objection to Fate: Seemingly Arbitrary/Amoral 26:06
The Development of the Idea of Karma in South Asia 26:50
Karma: Cause and Effect with Ethical Consequences 27:59
Karma and the Questions of Free Will and Moral Agency 28:47
Karma and the Lazy Argument 30:17
Stoicism: Injecting Ethics into Fatalism 31:56
Causation, the Prime Mover (God), and Fate 35:02
Stoicism, Free Will, and Compatibilism 36:52
Christian Inheritances: Athens and Jerusalem 39:17
The Problem of Evil and Free Will in Christianity 41:45
Pre-Destination and Determinism 43:51
Pre-Destination, Determinism, and an Omniscient Creator 46:30
God as Atemporal Singularity in the Eternal Now
Shared Issues among Abrahamic Cousins 50:52
Shared Issues among Abrahamic Cousins 2 56:47
Islam and the "Lazy Argument" (Compatibilism) 1:00:21
The Sum of Medieval Compatibilism: Thomas Aquinas 1:03;30
Free-Will, Determinism, Compatibilism, and Human Narrative 1;06:55
Freewill and Determinism: Tension in Narrative 1:07:49
Pre-Determined Outcome without Potential Alternatives 1:10:21
Narrative with No Pre-Determined Outcome 1:10;57
Narrative with No Pre-Determined Outcome 2 1:12:15
A Pitch for Compatibilism over Libertarianism and Hard Determinism 1:12;44
Tonight's Goal: Historical Development of the Idea of Free Will 1:13;13
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