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“Part of the definition of libertarian free will that an action that is free in that sense cannot be caused by anything outside of the agent, not even God can cause a person to freely do what is right” (Tooley). If humans are thought to have free will, then God would have no ability to control their actions. This could result in evil being brought into the world due to negative actions being…

“Free will, without which no one can live rightly, is a good and divine gift.” (Augustine 65). In the book, On the Free Choice of the Will, Augustine argues that humanity’s will, which is given by God, is indeed free. As the book proclaims, free will is something that has the ability to produce righteousness and happiness; it is a gift that produces peace and prosperity. Yet, at the same time, there is the possibility of the will to be fixed on the all too enticing temptations of this world.…

each and every one of us in this world for a reason. He based us off a reflection of himself because he is perfect and almighty. We, as living Christians, have a story. The tools God gave us to follow his path are: vocation, evangelization, as well as free will.…

capacity for freewill. If he had not done so, a person would no longer carry his or her identity as a person. In response to the argument of God creating a free person who would always make the right decision, Hick argues that the contradiction in itself does not make sense despite the apparent logic. In order for something to be free it must be free of any causation by an outside source. There cannot be any choice out of reach or not allowed. There cannot be a guarantee that anything will…

Snowpiercer: Determinism and the Self-Serving Hero The frozen wasteland that once was earth is the reality of the world of Snowpiercer. The chemical known as CW7, claimed to be a solution to global warming and created/manufactured by humans, was what brought the frozen wasteland to fruition in the year 2014. That it was humanity that brought on the ice age on as an effort to reduce earth temperatures introduces the prevailing idea of determinism in the film: humans were so determined to ‘save’…

Is action free or determined, Spinoza argues that it is determined but there is a freedom of will in the doctrine of the conatus. This view rests on three metaphysical positions that Spinoza advocates for, namely immanent necessitarianism, reductive naturalism and monism. All that exists and has is and will happen is immanent and inevitably going to happen. This he argues is because nature is constructed by a free uncaused cause (that which has no external constraint). This uncaused cause…

the Eighth Section of the First Enquiry, Hume takes on the matter of Free Will and Determinism. The section takes on the problem of how the science of his time implies the world, and consequently human beings, is deterministic, while at the same time people’s own understanding of their lives implies that they have free will. Hume makes an argument using his ideas about knowledge and causation, to claim that determinism and free-will are compatible with each other. This section makes use of…

intended this world to be free from anything having to do with evil. It all started in the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve dwelt, and God told them to eat from all the trees except one. The tree being, the Tree of Good and Evil. God said if Adam and Eve did not eat from the Tree of Good and Evil that they could always stay in the garden and live in paradise on Earth. God does not want to force people to serve him. So God enabled all human beings to have their own free will and make their own…

God is the creator of man’s mind and as a result man thinks rationally, rather than by sheer instinct like an animal. Man’s mind, or intellect, confers upon him the ability to think reason and remember. Above all this man’s mind is still limited. “But, as the Tanakh says, ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard and no one’s heart has imagined all the things that God has prepared for those who love him.’ – 1 Corinthians 2:9 Even the greatest minds in the world have no comprehension of what greatness…

virtuous God. Through the logic expressing that everything generated by God is good and thus, God did not create evil, Augustine defines evil as the depravity of goodness that recurrently befalls mankind as a consequence of man’s poor application of free will. Perhaps the basis of his argument is best illustrated by his question, “Where then does it [evil] come from since the good God made everything good…