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Week 6 Test Ans 2

Week 6 Test Ans 2

Q Explain why Baron d'Holbach's views on free will fall into the category of "hard determinism."

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The core belief of hard determinism is that the entire phenomenon in operation around us is caused by a particular factor. Thus this idea is a clear negation of the idea of free will because if everything is caused, man cannot possibly exercise his own choice in determining the course of his life.