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St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Platonist Christianity and Free Will

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St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Platonist Christianity and Free Will

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  1. St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430)Platonist Christianity and Free Will “For they are given that no one might be able to plead the excuse of ignorance, as the Lord says concerning the Jews in the gospel: If I had not come and spoken unto them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. “

  2. Corliss Lamont (1902-1995)Humanism and Free Will With Bob Dylan in 1963 National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee

  3. Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism and Human Freedom • "For I am responsible for my very desire of fleeing responsibilities. To make myself passive in the world, to refuse to act upon things and upon Others is still to choose myself, and suicide is one mode among others of being-in-the-world.“ • “Either man is wholly determined (which is inadmissible, especially because a determined consciousness-IE, a consciousness externally motivated-becomes pure exteriority and ceases to be consciousness) or else man is wholly free."http://library.thinkquest.org/18775/sartre/frees.htm

  4. Baron d'Holbach (1723–1789) Determinism "If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them, and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests.“ "If ignorance of Nature gave birth to gods, then knowledge of Nature is calculated to destroy them."

  5. Richard Taylor: Fatalism 1919-2003 The Story of Osmo

  6. Walter Terence Stace (1886-1967) Compatibilism Acts freely done are those whose immediate causes psychological states in the agent. those whose immediate causes are states of affairs external to the agent. It is plain that if we define free will in this way, then free will certainly exists [compatible with determinism], and the philosophers denial of its existence is seen to be what it is—non-sense.” “If there were no determinism of human beings at all, their actions would be completely unpredictable and capricious, and therefore irresponsible”  [Stace, p. 418].  *From Walter Stace, Religion and the Modern Mind, Copyright by W.T. Stace, 1952. http://web.missouri.edu/~stdvw5/Site/PHIL1000/5565A53D-375A-482D-AE48-EAF017D27495.html

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