Quote Originally Posted by Silke
Oh boy, I actually read that book in school and successfully wiped it out of my memory - I hated it at the time! But that goes for a lot of literature we had to struggle through. I might give it another try.

So, if I understand you correctly you're saying that predetermination (as Antigone sees it) only sets some sort of goal or mission in your life? Like a life long search or task you have to fulfill? And how would you know what it is then? Can you decide to go against it and follow another path? Hmmm... that's cleary a different definition from the one I had in mind. Could you illuminate a little more?
If I recall my Sophocles correctly, (is that a different Antigone, Ed?) the idea was that you think you have free will to choose, but no matter what choice you make - no matter how hard you try to avoid it, you will end up at your predestined future. Thus posing the query, were you merely predestined to make the choice you made or would have ended up at the same place no matter what choice you made?

That being said I belief in free will (or at least the illusion of it), and although nuture influences us, we have the free will to overcome it.

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