Liberttarianism: Applying Aristotle's Dualism Theory
1. Libertarianism is the idea that if at any one moment a person has multiple possibilities for their action, they have free will to choose whichever action they want. The first premise of the causal determinist argument is that every event occurs under a causal condition that ensures its occurrence, which disproves free will. If person A is to believe in both, this means they believe that Aristotle’s uncaused cause idea, which is that a person causes an action, but there are no causes that make a person cause that action. The only explanation for this theory is that there is an immaterial soul acting outside the laws of physics, which is uncaused, that is interacting with the body within the laws of physics, which is caused. This would mean that the soul is the uncaused aspect and the body is the caused, which would make the mind and body two separate things, supporting the dualism theory of mind and body.
2. The idea behind libertarian free will is that a person has the …show more content…
If God were to exist, it is believed that he would be omniscient, omnipotent and morally perfect. This would mean that he knows all, has power over everything and always has perfect moral decision-making. On the surface, it seems that the existence of evil refutes the existence of God because if God does have all these qualities he could easily rid the world of all-evil, but he doesn’t. Alvin Plantinga’s argument that there is a reason for evil in the world shows that the existence of evil does not refute this idea of God. This argument states that an all-powerful God could allow the existence of evil provided that it is necessary for the attainment of some greater good. This argument shows that there may be compensatory goods in the world, which are goods that can only be appreciated while certain evils endure. This would mean that evil serves a positive purpose in the world to allow for more good, which would not refute the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect
2. The idea behind libertarian free will is that a person has the …show more content…
If God were to exist, it is believed that he would be omniscient, omnipotent and morally perfect. This would mean that he knows all, has power over everything and always has perfect moral decision-making. On the surface, it seems that the existence of evil refutes the existence of God because if God does have all these qualities he could easily rid the world of all-evil, but he doesn’t. Alvin Plantinga’s argument that there is a reason for evil in the world shows that the existence of evil does not refute this idea of God. This argument states that an all-powerful God could allow the existence of evil provided that it is necessary for the attainment of some greater good. This argument shows that there may be compensatory goods in the world, which are goods that can only be appreciated while certain evils endure. This would mean that evil serves a positive purpose in the world to allow for more good, which would not refute the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect