Soon after the publishing of Darwin’s most famous work, “origin of species,” a

So now that we understand what motivates the unconscious it is clear to state there are no free actions because every decision we make is decided by our unconscious. Hospers’s provides a perfect example of how even killing someone comes from our unconscious.

The Tattoo is story written about the life of a man named Ken Hideyoshi. The story is being told by Ken himself from inside Halawa Prison on the island of Oahu. In the beginning of the story Ken’s mother passes away and he is left with his father who is extremely distant and violent. Ken’s grows up fighting and causing trouble, especially when he befriends Koa.

A man is faced by a choice; shall he kill another person or not? Moralist would say, here is a free choice-the result of deliberation, an action consciously entered into. And yet, though the agent himself does not know it, and has no awareness of the forces that are at work within him, his choice is already determined for him: his conscious will is only an instrument, a slave, in the hands of a deep unconscious motivation which determines his actions. If the guilt is such as to demand immediate absorption in the form of self-damaging behavior, this accumulated guilt will have to be discharged in some criminal action. The man himself does not know what the inner clockwork is; he is like the hands on the clock, thinking the move freely over the face of the clock.

One way to show the presence of Social Darwinism is to show that the characters have no free will. The question of whether or not humans have free will can be answered by defining two main points, what is a free action, and what controls the unconscious?

Some topics in this essay:
Tattoo Ken’s, Social Darwinism, Darwin Darwin's, Sigmund Freud, Halawa Prison, John Hospers, Claudia Ken’s, Claude Immediately, Ken Honolulu, San Ken, social darwinism, ken’s father, honolulu ken, unconscious id, free action, ken killed, struggle existence, mama san, basic desires, motivates unconscious,