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Mackie's Arguement For The Infinite Man, Abigail J. Basile
Mackie's Arguement For The Infinite Man, Abigail J. Basile
Quaerens Deum: The Liberty Undergraduate Journal for Philosophy of Religion
Theists and non-theists alike have toiled with the characteristics of the Judeo-Christian God and how they may or may not be contradictory with the existence of evil. Some philosophers, such as J. L. Mackie, have decided that God and evil cannot coexist, mainly because the existence of evil means that any God is unable to keep evil and suffering away from His beloved creation, and such a limited God is no God at all. But Mackie’s argument rests on flawed foundation. Mankind is necessarily finite because even the infinite God cannot do the logically impossible and create the infinite—nothing infinite …
The Denial Of Transcendental Freedom Is Self-Refuting, Theodore Kahn
The Denial Of Transcendental Freedom Is Self-Refuting, Theodore Kahn
CMC Senior Theses
The questions of what kind of freedom morality requires and how to reconcile the capacity for free agency within a determined temporal sequence represent the crux of the free will debate. Traditional compatibilists claim that determinism does not preclude our capacity for moral agency. Nuanced determinists, such as Derk Pereboom, deny the existence of moral agency and argue that free will is not required to save the basic modes of our practical lives, such as our capacity to affect each other and to lead practically morallives. I will argue in favor of Kant’s view, which holds that since freedom and …