Tuesday, July 02, 2019

On cause and motives, very briefly (PhD Edit)

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July 2, 2019

My PhD is too large to present in one entry, so I have presented it in sections over the years, in numerous PhD Edits. 

‘Incredibly’ this section I am posting today did not list in either the external or internal Blogger search. This appears 'new' for this website. This section defines very well an aspect of my position on compatibilism. I am pleased to revisit it.

The Blogger archives top right, can be searched for comments on incompatibilism/libertarian free will and as well, hard determinism which are philosophically related, but differing concepts, to compatibilism/soft determinism. The archives can also be searched for listed authors. Thank you...

2010 Theodicy and Practical Theology: PhD thesis, the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter

God is the primary cause of all actions including ones leading to evil and sin,[1] and human beings are the secondary cause.[2]  In this way the act is entirely determined[3] by God as the primary cause and yet is done voluntarily by the secondary human cause without force or coercion.[4]  This is in line with Calvin and Feinberg’s theological explanations.[5]  Philosophically, God can determine actions that are also committed by secondary causes,[6] and this does not necessarily mean that the reasoning and motives of the primary and secondary causes are identical or similar.[7] 

I conclude that theologically and philosophically God, with pure motives, can will and permit evil and sin that human beings will and commit with rebellious attitudes, using limited compatibilistic[8] free will and not under compulsion.[9] 

CALVIN, JOHN (1539)(1998) The Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book II, Translated by Henry Beveridge, Grand Rapids, The Christian Classic Ethereal Library, Wheaton College.

CALVIN, JOHN (1539)(1998) The Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book IV, Translated by Henry Beveridge, Grand Rapids, The Christian Classic Ethereal Library, Wheaton College.

CALVIN, JOHN (1543)(1996) The Bondage and Liberation of the Will, Translated by G.I. Davies, Grand Rapids, Baker Book House.

EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1729)(2006) Sovereignty of God, New Haven, Connecticut, Jonathan Edwards Center, Yale University.
http://edwards.yale.edu/archive/documents/page?document_id=10817&search_id=&source_type=edited&pagenumber=1

EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1731-1733)(2006) Law of Nature, New Haven, Connecticut, Jonathan Edwards Center, Yale University.

EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1754)(2006) Freedom of the Will, Flower Mound, Texas. Jonathanedwards.com. 

FEINBERG, JOHN.S. (1994) The Many Faces of Evil, Grand Rapids,  Zondervan Publishing House.

FEINBERG, JOHN.S. (2001) No One Like Him, John S. Feinberg (gen.ed.), Wheaton, Illinois, Crossway Books.

GREENSPAN, P.S. (1998) Free Will and Genetic Determinism: Locating the Problem (s), Maryland, University of Maryland.

POJMAN, LOUIS P. (1996) Philosophy: The Quest for Truth, New York, Wadsworth Publishing Company.

PRUSS, ALEXANDER R. (2003) ‘A New Free-Will Defence’, in Religious Studies, Volume 39, pp. 211-223. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 



[1] Edwards (1754)(2006 2.1: 1-1-2).  Calvin (1543)(1996: 37-40).
[2] Pojman (1996: 596).
[3] Pojman (1996: 596).
[4] Pojman (1996: 596).
[5] Calvin (1543)(1996: 37-40).  Feinberg (1986: 24).
[6] Edwards (1754)(2006 2.1: 1-1-2). 
[7] Calvin (1543)(1996: 37-40).
[8] Feinberg (1986: 24). Feinberg (1994: 60).  Greenspan (1998: 1).  Pruss (2003: 216).
[9] Pojman (1996: 596).

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