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

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