havent studied much on eugenics...can name schopenhauer as a philosopher...just fucking google hard determinism n youll have it lazy ass:
Classical era
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In
ancient Greece,
Socrates initiated the rationalistic teaching that any
agent is obliged to pursue the chief good conceived by his or her mind.
[4] Strato of Lampsacus speculated that an unconscious divine power acts in the world and causes the origin, growth, and breakdown of things.
[5] Diodorus Cronus asserted the identity of the possible and the necessary and inferred that future events are as determined as the past ones.
[6] Chrysippus of Soli refuted the "
idle argument" invented to discredit determinism as if human efforts were futile in a preordained world; he explained that fated events occur with the engagement of conscious agents.
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The
Bhagavad Gita, a classical Indian text composed around 4th century BCE, also mentions hard deterministic ideas. Krishna, the personification of Godhead, says to Arjuna in the verse 13.30:
Modern era
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In the 17th century, both
John Locke[8] and
Baruch Spinoza[9] argued for strict
causality of
volitional acts.
In the
Age of Enlightenment,
Baron d’Holbach[11] promulgated the naturalistic interpretation of mental events.
Arthur Schopenhauer observed that everyone regards himself free
a priori; however,
a posteriori he must discover that he had been obliged to make the decisions he actually made.
[12] Friedrich Nietzsche noticed that free decisions are graded as
causa sui, emerging from non-existence.
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