hard determinism
No free will
Hard determinism is the philosophical position that all events, including human actions and decisions, are entirely caused by prior events and natural laws—and that this causal chain eliminates genuine free will.
Unlike compatibilists, who argue free will can coexist with determinism, hard determinists maintain the two are incompatible and side with determinism: Hard determinism suggests that praising or blaming people for their actions is ultimately incoherent.
What produces an effect
- effectResult of a cause
- causal chainEvents triggering subsequent events
- necessityIndispensable requirement
- inevitabilityQuality of being unavoidable
laws of nature · antecedent · consequence · mechanistic · physics · materialism · immutable · unalterable
Doctrine of inevitable outcomes
- mechanismMeans by which something operates
- naturalismWorldview excluding the supernatural
- reductionismExplaining wholes through parts
- monismSingle-substance metaphysics
empiricism · rationalism · B.F. Skinner · illusionism · physicalism
Predetermined course of events
- predestinedDecided in advance
- foreordainedDecided in advance unavoidably
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
providence · doom · prophesied · fatalism · decree · oracle · omen · divination
- compelledMade to act
- constrainedForced into narrow limits
- coercedPressured into compliance
- involuntaryNot under conscious control
puppet · automaton · powerless · fixed path · bound · controlled
cause
What produces an effect
- effectResult of a cause
- causal chainEvents triggering subsequent events
- necessityIndispensable requirement
inevitability · laws of nature · antecedent · consequence · mechanistic · physics · materialism · immutable · unalterable · fixed
fatalism
Doctrine of inevitable outcomes
- mechanismMeans by which something operates
- naturalismWorldview excluding the supernatural
- reductionismExplaining wholes through parts
monism · empiricism · rationalism · B.F. Skinner · illusionism · physicalism
destiny
Predetermined course of events
- predestinedDecided in advance
- foreordainedDecided in advance unavoidably
- kismetPreordained future outcome
predestination · providence · doom · prophesied · fatalism · decree · oracle · omen · divination · inexorable
no free will
- compelledMade to act
- constrainedForced into narrow limits
- coercedPressured into compliance
involuntary · puppet · automaton · powerless · fixed path · bound · controlled
- fatedestiny, fate, kismet, Moira, fated
- free willfree will, choice, volition, autonomy, initiative
- freedomfreedom of choice, freedom of will, free will, expression, speech
- Physicalismphysicalism, materialism, naturalism, monism, reductionism
- predestinationpredestination, foreordination, preordination, election, foreknowledge
hard determinismfree will
Autonomous choice capacity
libertarianism · self-determination · moral responsibility · voluntarism · autonomy
hard, determined, determine, determination, predetermined, undetermined, indeterminate, determinate, determinism