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7 pages in length. Taking responsibility for one's actions is not considered to be one of man's most admirable traits, a reality clearly illustrated by the preponderance of frivolous law suits clogging up the justice system. The extent to which responsibility comes from a place of moral accountability is both grand and far-reaching; that humanity has long attempted to impugn determinism as the sole reason why people behave as they do speaks to a species whose capacity for higher-thinking fails to accept the fact that people are governed by free will and fully culpable for their actions. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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to which responsibility comes from a place of moral accountability is both grand and far-reaching; that humanity has long attempted to impugn determinism as the sole reason why people behave
as they do speaks to a species whose capacity for higher-thinking fails to accept the fact that people are governed by free will and fully culpable for their actions.
"We cannot deny the free action of human beings however much their origin may be veiled in darkness. The self has conative [striving] tendencies, impulses to change by its
efforts . . . given conditions, inner and outer, and shape them to its own purpose" (Radhakrishnan, 1988, p. 125). For as
long as man has been putting forth contemplative concepts about his place in the scheme of reality, ultimately trying to figure out how and why he exists, the concepts of
free will and determinism have long been at the forefront of debate. While some like Campbell (1957) recognize the presence of both depending upon the specific circumstances of each
situation, others like Stace (2003) argue how man is fully incapable of controlling how or where his life progresses and is, therefore, under the guidance of peripheral forces. When
one looks more closely at the nature of these two arguments, it becomes easy to see how free will may be more of a guiding force for humanity than the
unaccountable nature of determinism. To Stace (2003), actions are explained by citing reasons as causes, but that unlike ordinary causal explanations, the explanatory
force of reason explanations does not derive from placing reasons and actions in a nexus like circumstance. These two tenets are, however, incompatible. A center notion is presupposed
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