Hobbes says that everything happens in inevitability.
Because behind every happening is an entire cause which (in its entirety) can produce nothing but the said happening.
“Whatever effect is produced at any time, the same is produced by a necessary cause.”
Because (Parallel universes aside) we can only take one action at a time. When we have a dilemma, we only take one path. Since there is ONLY ONE path we are able to take and all causes lead us to that path and only that path, that path is inevitable since those causes can only lead us there.
And so from that it is supposed that if someone of maybe some computer had enough details of the past, it could predict the future with complete accuracy.
So if there is any big dilemma that you resolved and took action on and you wonder what life would have been like had you done things differently, wonder no more because you could not have done things differently and still been yourself. The events leading up to your choice coupled with who you are produced that inevitable result. Had any minute detail of your past been slightly different, a different decision could have been made by you.
Which changes nothing in the way I view my actions.
“Whatever effect is produced at any time, the same is produced by a necessary cause.”
Because (Parallel universes aside) we can only take one action at a time. When we have a dilemma, we only take one path. Since there is ONLY ONE path we are able to take and all causes lead us to that path and only that path, that path is inevitable since those causes can only lead us there.
And so from that it is supposed that if someone of maybe some computer had enough details of the past, it could predict the future with complete accuracy.
So if there is any big dilemma that you resolved and took action on and you wonder what life would have been like had you done things differently, wonder no more because you could not have done things differently and still been yourself. The events leading up to your choice coupled with who you are produced that inevitable result. Had any minute detail of your past been slightly different, a different decision could have been made by you.
Which changes nothing in the way I view my actions.