Divine determinateness and the free will defence

A Comparativs Study of the Divine Will from the Viewpoint of Mulla Sadra and Narrations

Will occurs in man along with imagination, affirmation and spiritual changes. This kind of will definitely is not apt forthe necessarily existent nature ofGod. On the other hand, all the qualities of perfection have been attributed to the Supreme Essencesince the pre-time eternity. Will is among the attributes of perfection too; therefore, the Supreme Essence rationally cannot be devoid of this...

Divine will/divine command moral theories and the problem of arbitrariness

A well-known objection to divine will/divine command moral theories is that they commit us to the view that God’s will is arbitrary. I argue that several versions of divine will/divine command moral theories, including two of Robert Adams’s versions of the DCT and my own divine preference theory, can be successfully defended against this objection. I argue that, even if God’s preferences are so...

The Scope of Man's Free Will

A study of Determinism and Free-will in Persian Proverbs

Proverbs as a part of colloquial literature are always nourished by religion, culture, traditions, and philosophical beliefs of a community, and thus they mirror the common beliefs of a people. The frequent repletion of a proverb pregnant with a specific thought makes that type of thought a behavioral pattern and affects the actions and behaviors of the people of a society. In the Iranian socie...

Determinateness and Partitions

It is proved that the axiom of determinateness of Mycielski and Steinhaus for games in which players alternate in writing reals implies that co -» (co)" (i-e. for every partition of infinite sets of natural numbers into two classes there is an infinite set such that all its infinite subsets belong to the same class). For every infinite N C co, fi(A/) denotes the family of infinite subsets of N....