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The essay regarding evil and its relation to free will entitled “The Argument from Evil” by Peter Van Inwagen proposes many questions and contradictions. All of which relate back to one principle idea—the problem of evil and how to solve it. At the end of his compilation of ideas, propositions and examples, Van Inwagen poses a slew of questions for his readers to ponder and attempt to answer. Peter Van Inwagen is adamant upon insisting that there both is and is not a God. He proposes this as he…

victim of free will. Free will is regarded as the potential to choose, form opinions and to act voluntarily. In this case of study, Oedipus Rex,written by Sophocles, translated by Dudley Fitts & Robert Fitzgerald, Oedipus, is the author of his own free will and is not a victim of fate. Not under any oppression of the deities, Oedipus is a young protagonist that stirs himself into trouble by his self-determination and his independence to do what he pleases. It is determined that not only his…

to the fate or free will. The process of fate is something beyond the control of humans. Fate occurs without a matter of choices that someone can pick and optionally pursue; it is a matter of coincidence rather than intentional acts. In contrast, the act of free will allows a person to choose; a person can control their future implications rather than relying on a higher force to create their destiny. In Oedipus the King, the shocking coincidence of what was foretold and how it plays out,…

can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.” Stating that free humans have free will but have no control over how we feel. Since humans were first introduced to the earth, many great minds have pondered the question of free will and often come to wildly different conclusions. There are determinists, who believe that all event are influenced by factors external to free will. There are compatibilists, who believe that free will and determinism are compatible ideas and that one can…

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…

The idea of freewill and the existence of an omniscient being poses and interesting philosophical question; Can humans have free will, and co-exist with all-knowing deity, or does this create an apparent conflict? I am going to cover what the definition of these terms (freewill and omniscience) are for our discussion, bring up a few points about an apparent conflict between omniscience and freewill, and provide a conclusion as to whether or not this conflict is a strong defeater for these two…

Libertarianism being free from anything except our free will is something that is huge to me. There are many pros and cons to this thought. Of course some people are against this philosophic thought. Free will should be brought to everyone, but in some ways it is not always something that is real. Free will is said to be you’re able to make your own decision, which I believe we do everyday, but I do believe god has a path for us which allows us to make the decisions we do. Everyday we are faced…

The Problem of Free Will: Libertarianism The problem of free will discusses whether or not there is free will and moral responsibility in one’s actions. Causal determinism, the idea that physical events and actions have physical causes, plays a main role in this debate because it determines whether a person has control over their actions (G. Tiller, personal communication, October 2015). In hard determinism, there is only causal determinism so, a person has no control over the choices they make…

a particular person or thing in the future. Free will is an interpretation held by a person that defines their destiny. Free will is defined as the power of acting without the constraint of necessity of fate, the ability to act at one’s own discretion (O’Connor, 2002). An idea that is held by most philosophers is that the concept of free will is very closely connected to the concept of moral responsibility (O’Connor, 2002). In counter argument to free will as being responsible for a person…

philosophers throughout history who have attempted to analyze the concept of free will. He believed that free will is prominent within humans and that it is compatible with determinism. This compatibility stems from the idea that free will should be relative to constraint rather than causation, which free will is more often considered relative to. Ayer successfully defends his claims about free will by first breaking down the issue of free will, then defining his idea of constraint. He further…