Psychological determinism

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Dr. Daniel Bader discusses two forms of psychological determinism.

  • Orectic psychological determinism is the view that we must always act according to our strongest desire. (Compare with psychological hedonism.)
  • Rational psychological determinism claims that we must always act according to our "strongest" or "best" reason.

Psychological determinism = all behaviour is motivated by unconscious drives, pressures the reason we behave as we do is often unconscious.