But how the function of being an owner will figure, no economic determinist as such, can tell you.
The deterministcan predict that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the owner will resist attempts to deprive him of ownership, or that he will favor legislation which he thinks will increase his profits.
According to thedeterminist the innate character is caused; but this has nothing whatever to do with the question of responsibility.
The Determinist usually belongs to a school which has a clear and simple answer to this question.
The essence of the Determinist theory is simply that the same man will always, under the same set of external circumstances, act in exactly the same way.
Berkeley had fully apprehended theDeterminist position; see vii.
This leads me to the consideration of the effect of Determinist doctrines on the allotment of punishment and reward.
On the Determinist side there is a cumulative argument of great force.
At the same time, the difference between Determinist and Libertarian Justice can hardly have any practical effect.
For instance, the treatment of legal punishment as deterrent and reformatory rather than retributive seems to be forced upon us by the practical exigences of social order and wellbeing--quite apart from any Determinist philosophy.
But I think the cases are rare in which it is even on Deterministprinciples legitimate to conclude it to be certain--and not merely highly probable--that I shall deliberately choose to do what I judge to be unwise.
I do not dwell here upon the disastrous lapse in determinist logic.
The determinist (who, to do him justice, does not pretend to be a human being) makes nonsense of the human sense of actual choice.
The determinist does not believe in appealing to the will, but he does believe in changing the environment.
The determinist makes the theory of causation quite clear, and then finds that he cannot say "if you please" to the housemaid.
Similarly you may say, if you like, that the bold determinist speculator is free to disbelieve in the reality of the will.
For Boutroux, the determinist view is also a way of looking at things that is useful for the same purposes.
Spinoza had taken over from Descartes and Hobbes their mechanical and determinist conception of nature, though he gave to it, as we have seen, an interpretation of his own.
I doubt if the most iron-clad determinist among you could have the slightest glimmer of light on this point.
For this intellectual, determinist element would be truly represented by every however simple mental attention to things and their mechanism, their necessary laws and requirements.
For the mathematicaldeterminist she tends to become a soulless, pitiless mechanism against which man is helpless.
The man who has accepted the universe of the mechanist or deterministis not always gloomy.
For theDeterminist looks for the cause of wrong-doing in the environment of the wrong-doer.
The Determinist cannot put his wisdom into action, because he is in a minority.
That Determinist conclusion would be followed by the usual inadequate subscription.
It is because the Determinist understands morality, and the Christian does not.
That is because the Determinist understands human nature, and the Christian does not.
The Determinist would say: "This peer is what heredity and environment have made him.
The Determinist would say that Bill Sikes had committed a crime, and that he ought to be restrained, and taught better.
The philosophic Determinist would denounce the offender's conduct, but would not denounce the offender.
But let us go over the Determinist theory again, for it is most important.
But the Determinist would not blame Sikes at all: he would blame his environment.
You may say, in the case of Sikes and the peer, that the logic of the Determinist is sound, but ineffective: nothing comes of it.
When the Determinist refers to the "Order of Nature" he includes all, and asserts that an accurate analysis of human nature will be found to exemplify the same principle of causation that is seen to obtain elsewhere.
Responsibility as a phenomenon of individual psychology, whether from the Determinist or Indeterminist point of view, is positively meaningless.
Not that the dispute between the Volitionist and the Determinist is a merely verbal one.
The Determinist has often been too ready to take the meanings and implications of words from his opponent, instead of checking the sense in which they were used.
Of course, punishment in the sense of the infliction of pain merely because certain actions have been committed, no Deterministwould countenance.
Having said this, it is not difficult to see the place of punishment and reward, or praise and blame, in the Determinist scheme of things.
For example, the Determinist would quite agree that for conduct to be fruitful a man must feel that he is free to choose.
For much of the anti-Determinist case actually rests upon giving a misleading significance to certain phrases, while applying others in a direction where they have no legitimate application.
The Determinist denies any limit to its theoretical application.
Professor James says that the stronghold of the Determinist sentiment is antipathy to the idea of "Chance," and chance is a notion not to be entertained by any sane mind.
But I am not aware that any scientific Deterministever used "chance" as being a positive term at all.
And if it does not mean this, then Professor James is merely stating what every Determinist most cheerfully endorses.
The fact of choice, as has been pointed out, is common ground for both Determinist and Indeterminist.
A would-be indeterminist theory of will is as futile as a determinist theory is false: on any theory, will is prejudged in favor of determinism.
What is so altered by the determinist habit of mind, by the conceptual attitude toward will, is not at all one’s feeling of freedom, but only one’s interpretation of it.
It is for such reasons that one must labour and re-labour this geographic and determinist aspect of sociology, and this for no merely scientific reason, but also for practical ones.
A host of bold writers had been trying, with considerable firmness and continuity of purpose, to start a new kind of fiction, writing in perfect accordance with the determinist theories of Auguste Comte, Darwin and Taine.
This showed that the victorious school would have to reckon with the doctrines of the defeated party, and suggested that a determinist theatre might be the ultimate outcome of a compromise.
He thus emphasizes both levels, because the determinist level is found to be, though never the source or direct cause, yet ever a necessary awakener and purifier of the Libertarian level.
And at the same time this action is, more and more, seen to be limited and variously occasioned by the physical organism, and to be accompanied or followed, in a determinist fashion, by certain changes in that organism.
Hasdai Crescas frankly adopts the determinist position on the basis of God's knowledge, which cannot be denied, as well as of reason and experience, which recognizes the determining character of temperament and motive.
A fatalistic deterministdenies the category of the contingent or possible.
As a matter of fact, the determinist creed, with all its professions of charitableness towards the transgressor, and while pretending to soothe us by absolving us from responsibility for wrong-doing, fatally paralyses our endeavours.
And hence there are perhaps few attitudes so entirely irrational as that which affects to see in a determinist interpretation of man's {145} nature a special reason for optimism.
To vary the phrase slightly, we must not, on the determinist hypothesis, insult God by taking credit to ourselves for what He has done.
One can be a determinist and yet concede that the will plays an important part in the world; or one can be an indeterminist and yet assume that free will plays but a small part in the world.
It is a strange assertion, sometimes made, that the consistent Determinist must be a mere spectator of his own and others' lives.
But the theistic determinist is open always on the one hand to the paralysing thought that if he should err he is resisting God, and on the other to the equally deadly instigation of the thought that those who resist him are God's enemies.
As of old, anti-rationalists persist in assuming that the determinist view of things, mostly accepted by the rationalist, impairs character by reducing will to a 'mechanism.
And the upshot is that the theistic determinist is never merciful, whereas the rational determinist is at least under a logical compulsion to be so, however he may resist or divagate.
The intelligent determinist never was and never will be put out by his conceptual recognition of himself as part of an infinite sequence; and he has no need of M.
And if the Determinist is right, all this mental torture, with its myriad stabs and stings through centuries of centuries, is based on a monstrous delusion.
Sometimes the Determinist philosopher endeavours to prove to him that he ought to believe it.
Belfort Bax, the well-known English socialist writer, makes a very clever argument against the determinist position by comparing it with the attempts of the pre-Socratic Greek philosophers to reduce nature to one element.
The question in its ultimate form is merely scholastic, for not even the most extreme determinist would hold that only the economic argument must be relied upon by the orators and the press of the proletarian movement.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "determinist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
