Blog [SIX]- Counterarguments.

In post numero cinco, I claimed that moral character is possible only as determined by the will. Some people believe that moral character and free will have no connection whatsoever. Basically, there are some people who believe that when it comes to free will, there are times that it can have absolutely no beneficial effects towards moral character. Their arguments rely on criminals and more into prevention and rehabilitation.

The argument is something I can understand, but it doesn't sound completely acceptable. I mean, there are some people who that like that, but those people are out of the norm.

Work Cited

• Kane, Robert. Psychology of Free Will. University of Austin Texas. 2005. http://gfp.typepad.com/online_papers/files/psychology_of_fw_kane.doc

Blog [FIVE]- The Question.

The big question in the chapter of the Problem of Evil is,

"What's the connection between free will & moral character?"

Moral character is possible, in my opinion, only as determined by the will. A person forms his own moral character by the free determination of his will. The range of moral character goes hand in hand with that of free will. Man is morally responsible only so far as in the exercise of his own free will he determines what he does and what he becomes and is. Man's moral character is hand in hand with his moral responsibility and therefore with the action of his free will.

Work Cited

• Rachels, James, Problems from Philosophy. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
• Rachels, James, The Truth about the World. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.

Blog [FOUR]- Conceptual Clarifications

Chapter 3- The Problem of Evil

1.) Evidentiary Problem of Evil- God and evil are logically compatible, the existence of evil is nonetheless evidence that God does exist.

2.) Logical Problem of Evil- the argument that it is logically impossible for an all powerful, all knowing and all benevolent God to exist if evil exists.

3.) Punishment- The point of punishment in the problem of is evil is that all of us are sinners, and our existence in a world of evil is somehow to be explained by that fact. We suffer because we bring it on ourselves.

4.) Moral Evil- the evil that people cause by their own actions-- murder, rape, war, and so on.

5.) Natural evil-- the evil that human beings do not cuase-- disease, earthquakes, droughts, floods, and other natural disasters.

Work Cited

• Rachels, James, Problems from Philosophy. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
• Rachels, James, The Truth about the World. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
• Beebe, James. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Logical Problem of Evil, 2006.
  http://www.iep.utm.edu/e/evil-log.html