(November 1, 2022 at 5:09 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(November 1, 2022 at 12:00 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Free will means that "it could have been otherwise", hence, we can impute moral responsibility to others based upon their choices, or, so the argument goes.
The scientific evidence is that we "choose" certain actions prior to even be conscious of our "choices", which is not at all "supremely sensible".
That is one definition of free will, libertarian free will, a modern philosophical one. My point only applied to theologies based on Scholastic foundations.
Outside of traditional Roman Catholic (schismatic) societies, can you name a single, living scholastic scholar?