(October 9, 2009 at 6:31 am)Arcanus Wrote: I agree that "we can make our own choices" but, since I totally reject the (libertianism) concept of human free will, your dichotomy left me no option to select. As I said in the chatbox, freedom is predicated of persons, not faculties. In other words, the agent is free, not his will. A person's will is determined by his character and desires. (Frodo wanted me to respond in this thread but, until I get some feedback, I don't really know how to expand on this. Perhaps you could ask me some clarifying questions, Frodo?)
I tend to think of free will as being able to have chosen otherwise according to my will. By this I mean I am determined only by the nature of who I am, not by any force, law or God. If we are bound to do what we do from the beginning of time there can be no moral responsiblity. How does this relate to what you said?
Mark Taylor: "Religious conflict will be less a matter of struggles between belief and unbelief than of clashes between believers who make room for doubt and those who do not."
Einstein: “The most unintelligible thing about nature is that it is intelligible”
Einstein: “The most unintelligible thing about nature is that it is intelligible”
