In order to give the answer on the question concerning a free choice in our life it is very important to take into consideration two main conceptions: determinism and compatibilitism.
So, the first ones are the determinists. The representatives of such theory strongly supposed that the human beings can not have the possibilities to make a free choice. They stick to the point that all our decisions, actions and choices are already determined. In order not only to say about their ideas let’s give an example of the determinization of the person’s decisions.
The student has the task to write a work, but at the same time the student is eager to go to a party. So, the student should think and estimate the situation whether he or she really wants to go to the party and to write the task, and even tries to look into the future in order to see the consequences of the actions.
Comparing the degree of desires the student makes up the mind to go to the party. For the first time it looks like a free choice, but the determinists propose the other point of view. It is not a free choice, but very composite mechanism of work and as result of the work the decision was determined.
The choice to go to the party was caused by the previous visiting of the party as there was a meeting with an interesting person and the line of such consequences could be continued a lot. The point is that the decision of the student was determined by many factors which were before, so the described above choice was not free by nature, but determined by causes.
So, it is impossible to the person with the ability of free choice because our actions can not be done without any specific reason for it and that is why a free choice problem does not exist.
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