No Need to Deify: How Determinism Generates Free Will

For much of humanity the simplest and the best explanation to date of human mental capability and free will, notwithstanding the many advances of science, is its derivation directly from God, thereby exempting from corporeal principles the evident interaction between mind and body. No explanation wh...

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Main Author: Fonda, A. Granville (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Common Ground Publishing 2014
In: The international journal of religion and spirituality in society
Year: 2014, Volume: 3, Issue: 4, Pages: 35-49
Further subjects:B Determinism
B Freewill
B Naturalism
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