Week 14. Causal Determinism.

After reading the text , I have a definition for causal determinism. Its defined as cause and effect, where events occur to us because we had a previous event that led up to an event. I also take in consideration how causal determinism from my understanding doesn’t have control over events that happen to us. For example, its simple as procrastinating in school and not doing so well in a course. This shows determinism because after not completing the assignments for that class, obviously you will stay behind and not have the best turn out. Who are we to say that a student was procrastinating just because he didn’t do the assignments on time. There are many scenarios that a student could’ve fallen behind. For one, maybe one student already took a philosophy class and knows they can complete all the blogs before the final due date. In the other hand we have a student who is taking first philosophy course and knows he willed a tutor to understand the reading and go to office hours in order to succeed in the course. In other words, we don’t know what could go through a students mind maybe he was dealing with harsh family news, or maybe its in his genetics that his parents were procrastinators in college as well.

Furthermore, causal determinism wouldn’t change my actions that I’ve made up to today. In general we live in a world that can be random, for instance our world is just as random as a game of dice. You could roll the same number or you could roll the dice and the numbers could be different on either side. Yes many can predict their life picture perfect but I must say there are certain actions that occur along the way that could cause and effect us to another event. One thing leads to another and sooner than later its a circle motion event where one thing is cased by one thing and then another thing and it keeps going back . (word count340).