Hard determinists such as Ted Honderich ( Extract 9) argue that causation is mechanistic idea – we cannot escape our pre-causes that underlie the illusion of freedom. Once you realise that different philosophers define these terms differently, the spaghetti begins to unravel. It rests on the meaning of three ideas (key terms): freedom, the will and causation. Go to the roadmap for the structure of ideas in this section. The debate over free will versus (hard or soft) determinism has important implications for our ideas of moral responsibility, our power to transcend our circumstances, and make life choices that transform weaknesses into strengths, as suggested, for example, by virtue ethics. OCR students please note – free will has dropped off the new OCR spec but remains on some of the other specs (so I am leaving this section on the website).
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