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	Argument from free will - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The argument from free will is an argument against the Existence of God which contends that omniscience and free will are incompatible, and that any conception of God which incorporates both properties is therefore inherently contradictory.
		By definition, if someone has free will, then at any point in time they may either choose to do a certain thing or choose not to do it.
		This argument is one of the bases of Deism and various other non-omniscient religious philosophies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Argument_from_free_will (358 words)

	Problem of evil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, this approach does not refute the argument, as the logic of the argument is still valid if applied to a clearly stated definition such as suffering or pain, and "benevolence" includes being against human suffering.
		Free will theodicies attempt to address the problem of moral evil, whereas law-consistency theodicies attempt to address the problem of natural evil.
		This argument is of the logically valid form modus tollens (denying the consequent).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_problem_of_evil (2451 words)

	Free Will
		If we don’t have free will, and the individual is not seen as ultimately morally responsible for his or her actions, how do we carry on moral discourse and justify moral judgments.
		His arguments for free will are rebutted, and reasons are given for why we don't need even the illusion of free will in order to have what we value.
		This focuses on free will, responsibility and punishment from a naturalistic perspective, using the example of Susan Smith, who was found guilty of drowning her two children in a South Carolina lake.
	www.naturalism.org /freewill.htm (1602 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Free Will
		Moreover the notion of free will is unintelligible.
		Will viewed as a free power is defined by defenders of free will as the capacity of self-determination.
		Free will does not mean capability of willing in the absence of all motive, or of arbitrarily choosing anything whatever.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06259a.htm (4953 words)

	Free Will
		Free will means being free to try to escape (or not), to try to wave (or not), to try to move your limbs (or not).
		Since the free willist is making a claim, and an exceptional one at that, the burden of proof is on him or her.
		The determinist will respond that you are simply not aware of the causes of your decisions, and have labeled that ignorance “free will.” There were no doubt neurons firing and chemicals sailing across synapses and so forth, all very deterministically resulting in my choice of the danish.
	www.ship.edu /~cgboeree/freewill.html (2161 words)

	Darwin vs. Buridan: Free will requires indeterminism.
		We have shown that there is an initial case for free will, and that that free will does not require determinism.
		This seems to neglect the alternative the free will is a judicious mixture of the determinism and indeterminism -- after all, we cannot infer "salt is not sodium chloride" from "salt is not sodium" and "salt is not chlorine", true as both those statements are.
		According to a mediaeval argument, Buridan's Ass, which for the purposes of the story, has no free will, is placed at an equal distance between two bales of hay, and starves to death because it is unable to make up its mind which of the two bales it should eat.
	www.geocities.com /peterdjones/det_darwin.html (4477 words)

	Free Will
		“Free Will” is a philosophical term of art for a particular sort of capacity of rational agents to choose a course of action from among various alternatives.
		Free will also appears to be a condition on desert for one's accomplishments (why sustained effort and creative work are praiseworthy); on the autonomy and dignity of persons; and on the value we accord to love and friendship.
		Many accounts of free will are constructed against the backdrop possibility (whether accepted as actual or not) that each stage of the world is determined by what preceded it by impersonal natural law.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/freewill (6416 words)

	Determinism, Free Will, Freedom
		The will is considered the faculty of choice and decision, whereas the reason is that of deliberation and argument.
		Philosophers have argued that free will is incompatible with determinism.
		Augustine, The Free Choice of the Will and On Grace and Free Will; B Holbach, The System of Nature; W James, "The Dilemma of Determinism," in Pragmatism; M Luther, The Bondage of the Will; R Taylor, Metaphysics; A Farrer, The Freedom of the Will.
	mb-soft.com /believe/text/determin.htm (3183 words)

	Fredrik Bendz' philosophy: Free will
		Additionally, that something is free presupposes that it is not bound by any laws, and that it is a will presupposes that it is non-random and thus bound by some kind of laws.
		I can define free will away by demonstrating that it is a contradiction in terms, but that does not explain what it is that we experience as free will.
		One of christianity's and islam's main doctrines is the doctrine of free will.
	www.update.uu.se /~fbendz/philo/freewill.htm (2201 words)

	Christian Replies to the Argument From Evil: Free will Defense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Free will led to the ability to choose self over against God (radical, disobedient autonomy vs. obedient child of God), which in turn led to the Fall, which in turn can explain the rest of human sin and evil.
		So free will can still be said to be the “cause” (in a secondary, pre-conditional sense) of all this (a necessary condition) but not a sufficient condition in and of itself.
		Because of that, and given their free will, they can choose to rebel against God their Creator and seek to be autonomous (which is precisely the point where evil is introduced and defined), as if such a thing makes any sense at all and is something other than sheer folly and futility.
	ic.net /~erasmus/RAZ124.HTM (9011 words)

	Does the Free-Will Defense Constitute a Sound Theodicy? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is a sin which will be transmitted by propagation to all mankind, that is, by the transmission of a human nature deprived of original holiness and justice.
		It is sufficient for the argument of this paper to hold that there is an intra-Christian case for the non-existence of a free will - which there is, as explicated in the Bible.
		To comprehend Mackie's argument, it is essential to grasp the essentials of the philosophical concepts of compatibilism and incompatibilism.
	hem.passagen.se /nicb/Theodicy.htm (7232 words)

	the evangelical outpost: Letter to a Tormented Youth: Part I - On Free Will (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Free will is making choices based on what we desire, not in being able to divorce ourselves from our own character and motives in order to desire that which we do not want to desire.
		That is, a man is not free with regard to his willing or not willing, as follows from metaphysical necessity; Locke holds, though, that it does not then follow, though Edwards would (later) have it so, that a man is not free with regard to those options among which he chooses, if those options exists.
		Free will is simply the ability to choose your goals, loves and desires, sometimes with great difficulty, to be something other than what your history, environment and upbringing would cause them to be.
	www.evangelicaloutpost.com /archives/001296.html (19187 words)

	God of the Machine (01/17/2003): "Bad Argument Clinic: Free Will"
		It looks like something is a problem with free will — if some superbeing predicted our behavior, we could always deliberately act to falisfy the prediction once we knew it.
		Both Aaron's and Julian's arguments rest on the notion of the algorithm, that there is some method that can PREdict what decision will be made, if the decision is deterministic.
		We know what phase the moon will be in on this date in the year 2010 because the mathematics required to predict it follows guidelines that give us a shortcut to the solution.
	www.godofthemachine.com /archives/00000282.html (1897 words)

	Free Will and Determinism
		It does no good to say that free will is what we have when we choose one direction instead of the other possibilities when beyond the influence of such circumstances, because situations like that are few and far between (indeed, we could argue that they don't exist at all).
		As we discussed in the ninth article, some thinkers want to discount such choices and consider free will to be what we would decide on if we were in full possession of the facts and, as it were, our own masters.
		One popular and easily understood argument is a form of the moral problem from before: suppose we've robbed a bank dressed in a particularly bad costume, leading to an embarrassing arrest; at the resulting trial, we're being defended by Lionel Hutz, the famously inept lawyer.
	www.galilean-library.org /int13.html (5004 words)

	[Philed] a more specific argument for free will
		In the cases where certain people will arrange to have designated drivers if they know they will be drinking, yet others continue to take chances.
		Those shades are the expressions of free will.
		Behaviorism may be expressed in a laboratory setting, but in the contexts of human existance, it is sufficiently unreliable and allows me to come to the conclusion that free will exists; that people may make decisions based on more than prior positive reinforcements or on a notion of an objective reality.
	www.valdosta.edu /~rbarnett/philed/20040413/000452.html (469 words)

	O'Sullivan (1977) Intentions, motives and human action: An argument for free will (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		O'Sullivan (1977) Intentions, motives and human action: An argument for free will
		Intentions, motives and human action: An argument for free will
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	Argument for Free Will (from Philosophy, Etc.)? :: Forums :: The Infidel Guy Show :: Taking a Critical Look At What We ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It doesn't argue for much, except for that god-awful restatement at 5, which is just playing word games and changes the meaning of 4.
		The main problem I have with the argument (as I stated in its comment section) is that premise 2 is completely unverifiable -- i.e., even if I don't have free will, I can be determined to feel as though I've chosen to believe that I do.
		If one does this, you can ignore what's in between the commas (since they're parenthetical) and it would read "I ought to choose to believe [that] I have free will" (can any philosopher write well!?!?).
	www.infidelguy.com /modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=11163 (1237 words)

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