Friday, June 16, 2017

Determinism and Submission

According to many Determinists, 'free will' is an illusion in which one's apparent 'freedom of choice' is actually only the passive observation by one of a stronger cause of behavior outweighing a weaker one.  Now, on closer examination, to which it is rarely subjected, that analysis does not demonstrate that free will is illusory, but, rather, overrides it by incorporating into a more comprehensive analysis other causal relations.  So, applying its own method to itself, and broadening its causal context, the argument does not subsist in itself, but is communicated to an audience, either orally or graphically, for reasons that could include promoting acquiescence to established power relations.  Ditto for the Physicist embracing of Determinism for a system in which animate beings are reduced to inanimate entites.  In both cases, elevating the position to the status of insurpassable, immutable truth functions to reinforce it as an ideology of submission.

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