Free vs. Paid Essay

There is a huge issue on how to evaluate human behavior. People have narrowed it down to Free Will, which means people are responsible for their own actions” and Determinism meaning the environment and the occasion will affect one’s actions. The main issue is choosing one to explain human behavior. The dispute between these ideas can be seen in black or white, meaning some believe in the absolute definition of free will and determinism, while some believe in bits and parts from both concepts.…

cannot use metaphysical evil because by definition it depends on God’s existence. The evil exists simply because God exists and is perfect. It cannot use moral evil because this can be explained by the necessary existence of free will. Humans are able to sin because they have free will to obey or disobey God. If God made creatures that automatically loved him, it would not be real love, but a robotic semblance of a relationship. The argument must rely on natural evil because it does appear that…

a great deal of beliefs on free will. These beliefs had changed over the years of being a philosopher and psychologist as well as life events that formed his beliefs. While living at home after receiving his Doctor of Medicine degree he battled ill health along with severe depression. According to William James, the depression he was experiencing was due to “crisis of meaning” that were brought by his studies. At this time in his life he believed that the belief in free will and God were just…

In Treatise, David Hume explains two categories of perceptions – impressions or ideas. Impressions originate from our sensory observation or feeling, which is also regarded as reflections by Hume. Ideas aren’t as vivid as impressions, nonetheless they originate from our impressions. Ideas aren’t as vivid as impressions because it involves thinking of something instead of (first hand) experiencing it. Hume proposes a principle that implies that all ideas, regardless of whether simple or complex,…

Just imagine if we lived in a world where our actions had no outcome, where everything we do or say had no consequence. It would be a consequence free paradise. However, this is not the case. We are Humans, and the actions we face, the things we encounter and the things we don't do, have consequences on our lives and on the others revolving around us. As a result, we need to be capable to control our behavior in a near term to not hurt ourselves or our society in the long term. This structure of…

tomorrow, and that is true, then it will still be true right now, and if it is true right now, it will be true no matter what. If the statement is true no matter what, there is no possibility for anyone to have the power to make it false. Thus, no one has free will. On the contrary, if there will be…

1) In this paper I argue that B.C. Johnson’s argument about the problem of evil and God when it comes to dependence is weak because his work field explanation fails. I will address this argument as the “Dependence Argument.” As you read you will notice the simple addition to the job field he addresses points out holes in his “Dependence Argument.” Johnson’s following argument, which I will call the “Moral Urgency Argument,” provides a similar attack to the theist explanation for God allowing…

inherent motivating influence in human decision-making. For the sake of argument and the purpose of this paper, this intuitive metaphysical force will be regarded as free-will,…

Elliott Sober explains that the problem of evil is that its existence is proof for atheism. The proof for atheism based off the existence of evil is called the argument of evil. The first argument proclaims that if God existed, he would be all powerful, all knowing, and all good, and if he did exist, then there would be no evil in the world. Since evil does exist in this world, the conclusion is that god does not exist. There are various other forms of the argument of evil that add exceptions…

is all-powerful mean that he can control everything that exists? I think that the belief in randomness is directly tied to the concept of free will. Most religions contradict themselves on this point in my opinion, in that they all espouse the concept of free will and how central it is in their beliefs, but at the same time believe in the concept of destiny. Free will and destiny are opposing beliefs, and cannot both exist. Furthermore, randomness has to exist as a prerequisite for our continued…