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Freedom From Responsibility: Agent-Neutral Consequentialism and the Bodhisattva Ideal [PDF]

, 2016
This paper argues that influential Mahāyāna ethicists, such as Śāntideva, who allow for moral rules to be proscribed under the expediency of a compassionate aim, seriously compromise the very notion of moral responsibility.
Coseru, Christian
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On Hartshorne’s Objections to Determinism and Compatibilism [PDF]

, 2014
The problem of determinism and human freedom, which is one of the great debates in philosophy, has been discussed many times by philosophers who have very distinctive perspectives and thereby different results related to the problem.
Gundogdu, Hakan
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Rethinking Moral Responsibility: The Case of the Evil-Natured Tyrants in Confucian Thought

Religions
In general, the justification for the divine punishment in the Christian cosmos hinges on the notion of free will. Despite doctrinal complexities involving sin, grace, and divine sovereignty, individuals are held morally responsible for choosing evil ...
Yunwoo Song
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Divine Foreknowledge and the Problem of Evil: Four Views [PDF]

, 2016
This paper examines the issues of divine foreknowledge and the Problem of Evil from the standpoint of four different theological systems: Open Theism, Arminianism, Molinism, and Calvinism.
Justice, Nathan S
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Ginet's principle: Our freedom is the freedom to add to the given past [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual
This paper is a defense of the principle: All the worlds that are might-worlds in the world x are worlds that share some of their momentary states with x (A (possible) world y is a might-world in the world x if it is true in x that if someone were to do ...
van Inwagen Peter
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Against Molinism: A Refutation of William Lane Craig\u27s Molinism [PDF]

, 2019
The debate concerning human free will, human moral culpability, and God’s sovereignty has raged for millennia within the Christian church. The recent rediscovery of the medieval philosophical theory known as Molinism brought Molinism to the fore of this ...
Clemons, Daniel T.
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Locke and Leibniz on Freedom and Necessity [PDF]

, 2016
Locke and Leibniz are often classified as proponents of compatibilist theories of human freedom, since both maintain that freedom is consistent with determinism and that the difference between being and not being free turns on how one is determined ...
Shimony, Idan, Shoham, Yekutiel
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On the alleged shallowness of compatibilism: A critical study of Saul Smilansky: Free Will and Illusion [PDF]

, 2002
[FIRST PARAGRAPHS] The millionaire’s idle, talentless and self-centered daughter inherits a large sum of money that she does not really deserve. The victim of kidnapping rots in a cell in 1980s Beirut in a captivity that springs not from any wrong he has
Lenman, James
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In Defense of Moral Evidentialism [PDF]

, 2015
This paper is a defense of moral evidentialism, the view that we have a moral obligation to form the doxastic attitude that is best supported by our evidence. I will argue that two popular arguments against moral evidentialism are weak. I will also argue
Ryan, Sharon
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Dos versiones de la contraposición entre naturaleza y libre albedrío

Manuscrito
RESUMEN Según el incompatibilismo sobre el libre albedrío, la existencia de decisiones y acciones libres sería metafísicamente imposible en un mundo determinista.
Manuel Pérez Otero
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