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    influence on what decisions they make. P: Environment and society influenced the decisions people make. P: There is no such thing as free will. C: We are a living example of cause and effect, everything in someone's life leads up to the moment in the present, genes, environment, and society influence people, what decisions they make, that is why there is no such thing as free will. Shakespeare said. "Our fate is written in the stars," He is saying that we have no control

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    make decisions? If I knew that I was predestined to be evil, and didn’t want that life, then I would live my days hidden away from the world. An individual does have free will, other wise there would be no point in to continue living. I will discuss why we have free will, the result of having free will, and predestination. God gave us free will. Why? If God is love, then love is a choice. God could have done anything, yet he made us in his image and likeness. God chose to love us. He chose to create

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    Why I Have A Superpower

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    open-minded. After choosing my superpower, I do think it needs some regulations that will be crucial since if there're no limitations, I will be a sort of god which from a philosophical view will be not right because I´m taking people's free will. Taking people's free will means that I'm not letting them be themselves. Therefore, one of the regulation I think it's necessary is that I can't control children's minds because children are considered to be pure and honest. Have you heard the saying "Children

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    supports the free will of all events (Salles). The main problem between the two is the free will. Compatibilism is the belief that offers a solution to that problem. Compatibilism is concerned with the dispute between free will and determinism (McKenna and

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    outcome of our free choice. So either there is no omniscient god or we are created without free will and therefore are forced/unable to avoid doing evil. Again this shows that god is not benevolent, nor omniscient, therefore he is non-existent. Theists may argue the following reason for god to have granted humans free will. It is possible that god raised homo sapiens to rationality giving the gift of abstract thought, language and disinterested love. And so it is arguable that god gave us free will to allow

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    terminologies of the free will argument are recent which arises with the birth of modern science. The theological debate on free will arose only with Christian beliefs. But the question of responsibility for one's action has always been known to the analysts of philosophy. The most popular discussion when people can be admired or accused for their actions remains Aristotle’s. It is highly noticed that Aristotle and his period saw no need to talk about responsibility in case of free will. Aristotle asks

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    be posited that natural evils are result from the free choices made by supernatural beings (demons). However, a counterargument can be as to whether these beings are so powerful as to limit the omnipotence of God. Another problem with the freewill argument concerns the value of the wills. For various evils like murder, theft and rape it seems that the freewill of the offender overrides that of the victim. This means that while the offender is free to act in a certain way or not, the victim’s will

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    Problem Of Evil

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    Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Plantinga, A. (1974). The Nature of Necessity. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 166-167 Reichenbach, B. & Basinger, D. (1991). Reason and Religious Belief. Oxford University Press p. 130-133 Van Inwagen, P. (1983). An essay on free

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    Traditionally, “Free Will” is one of those things that is supposed to separate human beings from everything else in the universe. Human beings have free will, it is said, and nothing else does (with the exception of, maybe, for God). Free will is said to be extremely valuable. Many people would say that life would not be worth living without it. So…what exactly is free will? Free will is the ability to have willfully chosen otherwise for any previous decisions. And, the general population/scholars

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    Following to Descartes’s argument that man are the supreme source of human mistake or error and certainly not God based on the Fourth Meditation, he offers and presents an interpretation of the activity of the human will and how it may be described as free will. Assumed that Descartes discusses the “freedom of choice” and will as similar and compatible in his argument, critics opt to emphasis on it to know Descartes’s certain notions on human freedom. Descartes illustrates an analogy between human will

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