{"id":3499,"date":"2023-02-20T23:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T23:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/speech\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T23:00:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T23:00:57","slug":"speech","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/speech\/","title":{"rendered":"speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Instructions<\/h4>\n<p>Read the assigned reading from the chapter. Then <strong>choose ONE<\/strong> of the questions below to answer. Answer the question you chose in a response that is a <strong>minimum of 1-2 paragraphs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to explain your answers and give reasons for your views. You should <strong>cite the textbook<\/strong> and use brief quotations and summaries from the textbook in your response. <strong>Do NOT use any other sources besides the textbook<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Are you bothered by the thought of a rigidly determined existence? Does the idea that all your actions are determined disturb you&#8211;&nbsp;or reassure you?<\/li>\n<li>How would a personal belief in determinism affect your view of crime and punishment? Do you think that people are generally responsible for their crimes, or are they not responsible&nbsp;due to deterministic&nbsp;forces beyond their control?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Do you believe that every event has a cause and that free actions are possible? If so, are these beliefs compatible?<\/li>\n<li>Does it matter to you whether you have free will? Would your behavior change if you believed (or didn&#8217;t believe) that all your actions were determined by forces beyond your control?<\/li>\n<li>Are free acts, as Stace and compatibilists say, &#8220;those whose immediate causes are psychological states in the agent?&#8221; Would such acts still be free if the &#8220;psychological states&#8221; were secretly controlled by someone else through hypnosis?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Instructions Read the assigned reading from the chapter. Then choose ONE of the questions below to answer. Answer the question you chose in a response that is a minimum of 1-2 paragraphs. Be sure to explain your answers and give reasons for your views. You should cite the textbook and use brief quotations and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[189],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/3499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/3499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}