What is liked by one will not be liked by another - does philosophy accept it?

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“one man's trash is another man's treasure”

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/60429/origin-of-one-mans-trash-is-another-mans-treasure


This idiom means that one person can like something very much, but another can hate it.

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/one+man%27s+meat+is+another+man%27s+poison.html

Hard determinism only clouds the mind if we are enslaved to thinking we are free, then those who believe that they have no control over life are going through life making decisions based on what they perceive as pre-determined. To say we have a path set for us is to make us no more than a robot, and because robots cannot discuss topics intelligently and cannot act intelligently in situations proves that theory wrong. 

We all have identity each human individual is unique even twins are different. Our minds are just as unique as our fingerprints

http://www.exampleessays.com/viewpaper/90697.html

Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; --happiness; but few are going by the same road.

      - Charles Caleb Colton 

http://www.inspirationdaily.com/2011/our-minds-are-as-different-as-our-faces

Liking something is controlled by emotional mind - the right brain.

http://psychology.about.com/od/cognitivepsychology/a/left-brain-right-brain.htm

Emotion has usually, in the European- American tradition, been seen as the opposite of reason; the definitions provided in the Oxford English Dictionary emphasize emotion as agitation, perturbation, and ‘feeling’ or ‘affection’ — as distinguished from cognitive or volitional states of consciousness. Philosophically this split became entrenched through the thought of Rene Descartes, with his famous ‘I think, therefore I am’. Emotion has thus come to be associated with the body the way reason has been associated with the mind.

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/emotion

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As close as siblings I believe that. You criticize it, I will praise it".

Curtis Edward Clark · Answer

You didn't narrow the scope of your question. Is it about free will? Is it about determinism? Is it about subjectivity, such as "I like asparagus, you don't"?

I like Ayn Rand's answer, because it gets around the determinism question:
"that which you call “free will” is your mind’s freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character."

She did not deny cause and effect, as determinism is:
"The law of causality is the law of identity applied to action. All actions are caused by entities. The nature of an action is caused and determined by the nature of the entities that act; a thing cannot act in contradiction to its nature . . . . "

But to think we have no free will because you can't walk where you want to (because there is a building in the way) or that you can't eat poison is ridiculous. Now, you didn't say or imply those ridiculous things. But determinists do. They call it "contra-causal free will", and "libertarian free will", and they think it is what we want when we demand they recognize that free will exists.

Look at what all these famous living (or recently living) people have to say about our ridiculous belief in free will.
http://www.naturalism.org/freewill.htm

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What is liked by one will not be liked by another - does philosophy accept it?

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