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#784 Paul Russell: Free Will and Moral Responsibility

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The Theological Worry About Free Will

We're supposed to be free agents making real choices for ourselves but it's a cosmic fix god fixes it what we're going to do who we are and then holds us responsible. How is that fair? The Christian tradition has struggled with how to make sense of those sets of assumptions. Even if you don't have the theological view, worry about God and a controlling agent whose manipulating was and manipulating controls our circumstances and defines the choices we make.

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