Freewill vs Determinism

Sartre

• No essence
• Humans make themselves who they are
• Existentialism
  • no god
  • We chose our purpose of life
• Existence precedes essence
• Condemned to be free

Freud

• Three parts to the mind
  • Id - conscious - first layer
  • Thoughts and feelings moment to moment
  • Ego - Preconscious mind
  • Surface sense of self
  • Superego - Unconscious mind
  • Puppeteer
• A personality is created from events and experiences of childhood
  • conflicts, interactions
• Punishment and negative reinforcement are not good
• Psychotic people are out of touch with reality
  • They can’t control what they do

Ellis

• Control your own emotions with your beliefs
• Beliefs influence your emotional consequences
• Each person has a different emotional reaction to the same thing
• Irrational beliefs prevent us from achieving freedom
  • Exposure therapy
• Stoicism
  • one can deal with life's problems by changing out attitude about them
  • Be happy all the time
  • Mindset changes

Skinner

• Human freedom is not real and physically impossible
• Positive and negative reinforcements
• Conditioning is done best when unconscious
• You will always be conditioned to make a choice so you have no freedom
  • Environment and genetics control your decisions