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Start of discussion time: 10/17/2022, 1:18 PM End of discussion time: 10/17/2022, 1:50 PM All of my Group Members were present. As discussed in our group Ishameal is a unique book that approaches philosophical questions in a new way. Using the approach of a telepathy communicating Gorilla creates confusion through the book. The use of commonly known events such as the holocaust allows a reader to follow the story. Things such as the airplane example that Ishmael brings up also helps a confused reader. There are many ideas that Ishamel presents but chief amongst them is this idea of takers verus leavers. There are many points that Ishamel brings up that gives validity to this idea but I disagree with him that this is 50/50. Ishamel Suggests that you can either be a taker or a leaver and nothing else, I belive that there is a big grey area there that could help explain certain types of people. One of the questions that stook out to our group was question 3, the idea that a younger pers

Truth in Libertarianism What is Libertarianism? It is a component or argument that strives to support incompatibilism against compatibility. The context behind these two philosophies is seen through the debate of free will and if people make their own decisions or not. Incompatibilism argues that determinism and free will cannot exist in the same world. The three main arguments for this ideal are Hard Determinism, Indeterminism, and Libertarianism. Hard determinism says since determinism is true then we cannot be free under no circumstances, indeterminism says that determinism is not true in every circumstance, and finally Libertarianism argues that human actions are a special kind of uncaused cause. Libertarianism basically argues that humans are free to make their own choices in every situation and this belief cannot exist with a deterministic world. There are three objections to libertarianism that a combat list may bring up, these include: depression, Ockham’s razor and miracle