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logical problem of evil) has been satisfactorily answered by Alvin Plantinga’s Free Will Defence’, (Phillips, D, 2007). To imply that freewill is the absolute…

being human means being free and being able to make your own choices. I personally believe all three of these variables, taken together, describes what makes us human. Essentialists theorize that having a soul is more important than merely having a physical body; they believe that the person resides in the brain, personality,…

it seems impossible to put to rest the matter of free will. This issue of free will remains because of its connection to moral responsibility. What features constitutes moral responsibility? Do we possess these features? These questions about moral responsibility are interconnected to questions about public policy and justice. Hence the issue of moral responsibility has practical as well as theoretical significance. Moreover, recent works on free will like Richard Taylor’s Freedom and…

Reflective Response Paper Depending on your religious beliefs there could be many different answers to the question of how free are the choices that we make and is it really our choice to make or is it predetermined by some higher power. My personal belief is that you have the freedom to make choices that you see as what’s right for you or want you want at that point and time but I also see it as we are all put on this earth for a specific reason or purpose that is greater than we know. When we…

wanted to wear and he picked green and not blue Hard determinism says that he wasn’t actually free to choose because that choice had already been made beforehand. The freewill we think we have is all just an illusion, like the example given by John Locke if a man is locked in a room but he isn’t aware he is locked in the room he thinks he has free will and just decided to stay in the room, this would make his free will just an illusion. This is believed because of the universal theory of…

destroy in the name of God, Muslims qualify killing “as God 's will”, the U.S. Dollar claims “In God we Trust”. The integral part of religion is free choice, or destiny. To give humanity a fighting chance, God would make ten influential people in history to provide guidance and insight. These ten people would guide humanity with knowledge about free will. Free choice is a force that is used to effect dramatic change. Before the top ten people in history, you have the top ten oxymoron 's, ten…

Frankfurt and Free Will within Addicts In “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of A Person”, Harry Frankfurt makes the argument that individuals lack moral responsibility for an action if one could not have done otherwise. Frankfurt uses the examples of three addicts: the willing, non-willing and wanton addicts to make his argument that having free will exists if one has identified with their desires. I will argue that Frankfurt’s argument is plausible because having free will may depend on the…

The second thing is that God is described as being itself therefore God cannot ground or cause the non-being which is evil” (Fr. Robert Barron on God, Tsunamis, and the Problem of Evil). Evil exists in our world today because of a misuse of the free will. What is evil? Frist, evil is not a sort of knowledge. Evil, described as a sort of entity acting against the good, does not exist. Much like darkness is not opposite to light but rather a lack of it, so evil is just another word that…

Holbach’s View on Free Will Paul Holbach was a French philosopher who is a hard determinist meaning that he believes determinism is true, and if determinism is true then you cannot have free will, therefore free will does not exist. In Paul Holbach 's “The Illusion of Free Will,” he argues that people don’t have any free will and that nature determines every human’s actions and will. Free will is the ability for one to perform an action without any outside force influencing them and to be able…

The topic of moral responsibility is a popular debate among philosophers. Moral responsibility and free will are tightly intertwined, making the argument slightly more complicated. Free will is defined in two ways: 1. open choice, which states you choose x freely only if you could have done otherwise, or 2. voluntary choice, which states you act freely if and only if you act voluntarily, without coercion or constraint. Determinism is defined: past events and the laws of nature fully determine…