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This 3 page paper considers the theories of Aristotle and Mill with regard to voluntary and involuntary action and argues that the two philosophers would hold diametrically opposed views of Anakin's evolution from a Jedi to a Sith. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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unwilling tool of his own emotions, and therefore was "destined" to turn to the Dark Side? This paper considers the theories of Aristotle and Mill with regard to voluntary and
involuntary action and argues that the two philosophers would hold diametrically opposed views of Anakins evolution from a Jedi to a Sith. Discussion One of the most intriguing things about
the character (as he could have been; these three films are arguably filled with some of the worst acting even filmed-where are Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill when you need
them?) is the fact that even as a child, Anakin had self-confidence and arrogance far beyond what an ordinary child has. The pod race in particular gives us a clue
that this child is able to interact with adults on their level. He has little or no fear; he deals with smugglers and other violent characters with barely suppressed violence
of his own; and when he leaves home, it has almost no effect on him. He is a very self-contained and "hard" child and that core of rigidity and arrogance
doesnt change, it only grows stronger as he gets older. According to John Stuart Mill, the idea of whether or not the "law of causality" applies to human actions in
the same way it does to other phenomena is related to the freedom of the will, a controversy that is still unsettled (Mill, 2003). Mill writes that the "affirmative opinion
is commonly called the doctrine of Necessity, as asserting human volitions and actions to be necessary and inevitable. The negative maintains that the will is not determined, like other phenomena,
by antecedents, but determines itself; that our volitions are not, properly speaking, the effects of causes, or at least have no causes which they uniformly and implicitly obey" (Mill, 2003).
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