Introduction to Philosophy 101 -- Free will and determinism

[stefan11]

I'm posting it here for the benefit of my students in metaphysics / introduction to philosophy classes (i.e., so they have an easy access to some movie takes representing classical positions in the debate about the freedom of will, choice, determinism, and so on):

Everything begins with choice (or maybe not): Various characters depicted here

Comments

[_antisocialite_]

This is great! I would happily take a philosophy class from you :)

[stefan11]

Thank you! I have updated my musings a bit; I am now even more convinced that Oracle is a soft determinist. I will probably update them some more.

[_antisocialite_]

haha I liked the clip so much I stole it :D

[stefan11]

Noticed! And great you can use something like this.

Feel free to borrow my commentary, too. In fact it's best to watch all clips together with the commentary. I just added one more, including Neo's fight the Agent Smith (philosophy starts at 3'25"), and few links to popular science/philosophy essays. :-)