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Q. Why do you work hard? A. Because you choose to. Choosing to work means taking action in the world, which is where you can stop looking for a cause outside
by inimino 4y ago
Q. Why do you work hard?
A. Because you choose to.
Choosing to work means taking action in the world, which is where you can stop looking for a cause outside yourself. How did you choose, you can still ask. But you choose to work because you choose to work. It's because of this that you can say you have a good work ethic. A choice is something that you take responsibility for. Not your parents, or your work ethic, or the way you were raised.
- vidarh 4y agoYou can ask why you chose, and when you gave the answer that you choose to do so because you choose to do so you're begging the question. What gave you that work ethic? Either nature or nuture, both outside your control. For you to have any kind of real agency rather than being the product of cause and effect beyond any control of yours would upend both logic and physics (in other words: free will is nothing but an illusion).
- inimino 4y agoMy point, which you missed, is not that you can't ask why, but that you aren't obligated to ask why. Saying that you made a choice (repeatedly) to work hard is enough of an answer to the question of why you had some benefit in your life accrue to you due to your hard work. If you want to ask why you made those choices, you would have to give an answer for each one, but the fact is that you made them. Free will is no more an illusion than the qualia of red. If what you think is outside your control, then who is the "you" that is not in control? Where is it?
- Pent 4y ago>Free will is no more an illusion than the qualia of red. If what you think is outside your control, then who is the "you" that is not in control? Where is it? If you can't choose to swap the color red to blue, then what makes you think you have any other choice with other things in your mind?
- inimino 4y agoDo you experience the qualia of red as a choice? If so, you cannot trust your senses any further than your own choices. But if you experience, for example, before taking an important call, that you have a choice to make, then you have a choice to make. The fact that the laws of physics may underwrite your experience has no bearing on this.