Topic > Radhakrishna's View on the Theory of Determinism

A perfect example is how I am not free to do this final task. There are many forces that have shackled me into doing this, such as financial and social factors, even though I would much rather do other things. However, I am free in how I choose to proceed. I could work on it a week in advance and work on it slowly, or I could choose to work on it in a single night. It also opens up thousands of other possibilities. So, to a certain extent, we are free, but at the same time also not free. One counter to this is that all the factors in our lives from the moment we were born have shaped all the moments we have had from that point on. “What we believe and desire depends on factors completely outside our control. In general, it depends on how the world is going; more specifically, it depends on our biological and psychological nature, on the society in which we live and on our particular portion of it...”10 Everything happens in a causal chain down to the tiny chemical reactions in our brain and all the feelings, our place social, the temperature in the room, what we ate for breakfast. All these various variables influence our path and the choice we make is already determined. However, I think this is true to some extent, but the final choice depends on rational thinking and its decision. Weighting of all these factors is done