What is metaphysics ?

Do we have free will ?

determinism

Determinism

Our life is dictated by choices we have made in the past and choices that have been made before we were born. According to determinism, humans have no free will.

Religion and Spirituality

According to most faiths, humans do not have free will. People have set paths designed by a higher power.

indeterminism

The belief that things just happen randomly without reason. Suggesting that humans don't have free will.

Libertarianism

Humans were randomly put on Earth and they are free to do what they want with the life they were given. Suggests that humans have free will

What is consciousness ?

dualism

property dualism

The psyche is totally seperate from the body. Consciousness is an extension of your mind and is separate from your body.

substance dualism

mind and body are separate entities , mind is separate from the brain. Consciousness is purely from the mind separate from the brain.

monism

idealism

reality is sourced from ideas in the mind and is unrelated to matter. consciousness is an extension of the mind.

materialism

Mind and brain are one single entity. Consciousness is a brain process.

What is the meaning of life ?

nihilism

Nihilism rejects the concept of meaning and a higher being. Nihilists believe that life has no meaning.

supernaturalism

is a sufficient reason to give life meaning.

Naturalism

Claims that life can be meaningful without the existence of God or an afterlife . What makes meaning is subjective and varies on the individual.

Does the world really exist ?

,materialism

The world is made out of matter. Matter precedes the human mind and the world would exist without the human mind to perceive it for it is matter. To materialists the world really exists. philosophers : Kant