Freedom: Is Free Will really Free?

The the freedom chapter, there is a specific section all about free will. This section is then broken down into three parts talking about free will. The first call, A Pessimist's View of Free Will, talks about philosopher Arthur Schopenauer's opinion on the idea of free will. He believe, that will definitely exists in humans, but also thinks that freedom is possible when you deny your will. Schopenhauer also states that women are "better for the world than men" because they are better able to deny their will, which is a back handed compliment because prior to saying this he also said that "the entire sex have proved incapable of a single truly great genuine and original achievement in art, or indeed of creating anything of lasting value", But in the end, Schopenhauer believed that people indeed have freewill, but offers up many other sides to look at as well. The second part of this section is, Regret and Relief as Signs of Free will. In this part, we learn about a different scholar, William James, who proposes and idea of indeterminsm. Indeterminism, described by James, is the idea that life is "a random collection of chance happenings". People are not machines and everything doesnt always go as planned. He uses the idea of regret to explain this by saying that regret is a phenomenon that everyone experiences, but if everything was predetermined, looking back wouldn't result in the sensation of regret. The last part is called Phychoanalysis and Free will. This talks about dream and the ability to freely in the subterraned area of the mind. Psychologists believe that they can controll people's dreams to lead them to make certain choices. They talk a lot about Freud and his thoughts that "freedom is not attainablee only in the therapist's office".