The argument about whether humans are predetermined to show how we are and act as we do or whether we are our own decision-makers and have the freedom to choose our Life paths are a long-standing controversy. As a psychologist in training and based on my personal beliefs, I do not believe that we actually have this so-called free will. It is for this reason that I choose to believe that d'Holbach's work on free will is the most accurate. Although the ideas presented by Hume and Chisolm are each strong in their own way, d'Holbach presents the best and most realistic argument for how we choose our path; because every event has a cause, we cannot have free will. Not only that, but also that since there is always an external cause, we can never justify blame. Let us now review Hume and Chisolm's arguments and highlight why I do not think they correctly describe free will. First, Hume is what we call a compatibilist. A compatibilist is someone who thinks that causal determination is true, therefore free will is true. In order to justify these claims, Hume uses his specific definitions of liberty and necessity. Essentially, Hume makes liberty and necessity compatible with each other by concluding that people thought they were not compatible only because they had confused ideas about what liberty and necessity actually meant. Thus, Hume defines them thus: The necessity is that something seems to follow a commonly observed correlation. For example: If we drop a pen, we know that it will fall to the floor because we have observed that every time we drop something, it falls to the floor. Hume, however, defines freedom as “a power to act or not to act, according to the determinations of the will” (Hume, 10). For example: You can choose...... middle of paper ......do otherwise, then we could have chosen to do otherwise of the first otherwise. It's a vicious circle. Ultimately, the free will argument ends there. We see that d'Holbach's views on free will are the right ones to follow because we cannot refute the fact that nature is the strongest of all forces. Since nature is the most powerful force in the world, our brains (and therefore our beliefs, values, etc.) are determined by nature. Whether these determinations are natural or innate, there is always a pre-existing cause and therefore we cannot have free will. Not only that, but also that since there is always an external cause, we can never justify blame. For this reason, I guess the saying "Forgive and forget" is the best saying to follow, because if you want to continue blaming someone for something, just forgive them and forget it, because in reality, it doesn't. he's not the one to blame..