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A Buffet of Deserts: An Examination of the Underlying Principles of Desert in Job

Kairos (English Ed.), 2009
Job challenges the theological milieu of retributive justice prevalent in Near- Eastern society by daring to ask the veritable question: can people deserve?
Zachary Alexander
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Neuroanatomy of the Will. [PDF]

NeuroSci, 2022
Sonne JWH.
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Nemesius of Emesa on Fate

Religions
This paper analyses the section of Nemesius of Emesa’s treatise On the Nature of Man dedicated to fate. The main objective is to analyse Nemesius’s response to the supporters of a notion of fate within the framework of astral determinism, Stoicism, and ...
David Torrijos-Castrillejo
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FREEDOM AND DETERMINISM: A CONTEMPORARY DISCUSSION

Zygon, 1987
. The problem of freedom of the will and determinism is one of the most intriguing and difficult in the whole area of philosophy. It constüutes a paradox.
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Epistemic Compatibilism [PDF]

, 2011
Knowledge is important for us, human beings, for a variety of reasons, starting with trivial but necessary reasons to live your life (knowing not to cross the street when the traffic light is red, knowing that water quenches thirst, knowing where you ...
Vasiliauskaitė, G. (Giedrė)
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Free Will and Compatibilism [PDF]

The author mounts a case against the libertarian and hard determinist's thesis that free will is impossible in a deterministic world. He charges incompatibilists with misconstruing ordinary 'free will' talk by overlaying common language with their own ...
Allan, Leslie
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The Problems of Free Will and Moral Responsibility in Buddhist Ethics

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
At the end of the 20th century, a discipline of Buddhist ethics was formed in English-speaking countries, within the framework of which a community of closely interacting researchers is engaged in the comprehension and systematization of ethical ...
Vlada A. Volkova
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Free Will: Who Can Know [PDF]

I have inquired as to what sort of knowledge humans need to make justifiable claims regarding free will. I defended the thesis that humans do not have the sort of knowledge which would allow them to make such claims.
Zafer, Kılıç
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The fate of presentism in modern physics [PDF]

, 2011
There has been a recent spate of essays defending presentism, the view in the metaphysics of time according to which all and only present events or entities exist.
Wuthrich, Christian
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THE PROBLEM OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PREDESTINATION AND FREEDOM OF CHOICE IN THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT

Russian Studies in Culture and Society
Background. The subject of the research in this article is one of the most fundamental worldview problems - the question of the relationship between free will and predestination in the religious and philosophical context.
Dar'ya A. Nadeina, Oleg V. Chekrygin
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