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.