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Jonathan Edwards And Libertarian Free Will: August 2006
Older work above on the same subject, some of which ended up in the PhD.
Sovereignty and Providence
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)(1729)(2006)
writes that God has the power to bestow upon anyone of his creatures good,
evil, or indifference for the greater good.[1] This sovereign control is accepted despite
the obvious problem of evil occurring in God’s creation.[2] Attempts to harmonize strong concepts of
God’s divine control over his creation, with the apparent corrupt nature of
what he has made in regard to the problem of evil, will be described within
this thesis as sovereignty theodicy.[3] In Law of Nature, Edwards (1731-1733)(2006) explains that providence is
the means by which God governs the world as the supreme judge of the universe.[4] Reichenbach notes that providence is how God
guides and cares for his creation.[5] He further reasons that God on one hand
possesses wisdom in order to direct his creation within his plans, and on the
other hand has the power by which he attempts to implement his plans.[6] Reichenbach deduces that God’s providential
plans allow for significant human freedom and choices to occur.[7]
Free Will And Determinism
Edwards thinks there is
a major difficulty within libertarian concepts concerning free will.[8] If the
human will determines the will and resulting choices, since every choice must
have a cause, then a chain is established where a will and choice is determined
by a preceding will and choice. Therefore, if the will determines its own free
acts, then every free act of will and choice is determined by a preceding act
of will and choice. If a preceding act of will also be of free choice, then
that too was self-determined.[9] What
Edwards is stating is that in the act of causing a free choice (choice1), the
cause of that choice was also made freely (choice2), and the cause of that
choice was made freely (choice3) and so on.
This theological
concept of Edwards would tie into the philosophical concept of vicious regress[10] since with a regress it could not be determined
what caused a human choice initially, because every free choice was caused by a
previous free choice. Edwards instead reasoned that human choices were a result
of human nature originally created by and within God’s will. God therefore wills all things, and is the primary cause of all
actions.[11] I reason human actions, and
any angelic or demonic actions would be accepted as a secondary cause[12]
in order to avoid concepts of hard determinism, where only God or the first
cause would be morally responsible for acts.[13]
Blackburn counters that some form of metaphysical libertarianism[14] postulates that free choice is not causally determined, but is also not random.[15] It is suggested that an agency situated outside of human nature,[16] in regard to making human choice, is possible but likely ‘fantasy.’[17] It appears human choice should be traced back to human nature.[18]
Blackburn counters that some form of metaphysical libertarianism[14] postulates that free choice is not causally determined, but is also not random.[15] It is suggested that an agency situated outside of human nature,[16] in regard to making human choice, is possible but likely ‘fantasy.’[17] It appears human choice should be traced back to human nature.[18]
Edwards writes that God controls all
things.[19] The sovereignty approach can
present the remedy for the problem of evil in a practical sense, not just
primarily philosophically.[20] The approach needs to focus on the idea that
the triune God consummates his Kingdom and gives things meaning. It seems rather meaningless for a Christian to
readily accept a notion of God willing all things for a greater good within a
theological system when the greater good is not vividly practically explained
within the system, at least in general ultimate terms.[21]
BLACKBURN, SIMON
(1996) Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
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.
POJMAN, LOUIS P.
(1996) Philosophy: The Quest for Truth,
New York, Wadsworth Publishing Company.
REICHENBACH,
BRUCE (1986) Predestination and Free Will,
Downers Grove, Illinois, InterVarsity Press.
STACE, W.T.
(1952)(1976) Religion and the Modern Mind, in John R. Burr and Milton Goldinger
(eds.), Philosophy and Contemporary
Issues, London, Collier Macmillan Publishers.
[1] Edwards (1729)(2006: 414).
[2] Edwards (1729)(2006: 414).
[3] Feinberg (1994: 124-143).
[4] Edwards (1731-1733)(2006: 553).
[5] Reichenbach (1986: 115).
[6] Reichenbach (1986: 115).
[7] Reichenbach (1986: 118).
[8] Which would
correspond to modern concepts of libertarian free will and incompatibilism.
[9] Edwards (1754)(2006 2.1: 1-1-2).
[10] Blackburn (1996:
324).
[11] Edwards (1754)(2006 2.1: 1-1-2).
[12] Pojman (1996:
596). Stace (1952)(1976: 29).
[13] Pojman and Stace
both state a secondary cause must freely commit acts in order to be
significantly morally accountable.
Pojman (1996: 596). Stace
(1952)(1976: 29).
[14] Blackburn (1996:
218).
[15] Blackburn (1996:
218).
[16] It appears
Blackburn is discussing a human agency.
[17] Blackburn (1996:
218).
[18] Edwards (1754)(2006 2.1: 1-1-2).
Blackburn (1996: 218). Within my Reformed world view I reason God
created this nature and simultaneously influences and wills all human choice.
[19] Edwards (1729)(2006: 414).
[20] This is where
empirical theology can be beneficial.
[21] I can admit this
can be a weakness within sometimes overly philosophical Reformed approaches.
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