Free Will: are we free or is our life pre-determined?

When we go out into the world are our actions really a result of our free will or were they predetermined by conditions in our past? The determinist and the fatalist believe these fixed conditions in our past transcend any notion that agents have the power to act otherwise than they in fact do. Determinists follow the idea that at any given moment, there is one and only one future state of affairs that is consistent with the physical laws and the state of affairs at that moment. Fatalists believe that whatever happens is unavoidable because events that occur are inevitable by the causal…