Free Will and Agency at its Best

Free Will and Agency at Its Best

Agency and the Free Will debate [Extended Abstract]

This paper will take a close look of the term agency in Game Studies, identifying how it is presently used (on those occasions when it is) and suggesting how it could be used more cogently. Like so many terms in Game Studies-narrative and immersion as two of the more prominent examples – any author seeking to use the term has first to define it, resulting in a general avoidance of its use. Agen...

destiny and predestination and its relationship with free will

explaining the goal and way of creation and regarding god as a creator not as an agent, this paper has studied god`s unity in action meant by negating free and full agency from all but god. having proved the fact that the only real efficient of the universe is god, it explains the part of human being in what happens in his life with regard to predestination and destiny. as is understood, events...

Interpretive Study of the Verses Relating Misleading to God and Its Contradiction with Human Free Will

There are two initial and penal types of Divine leading and misleading; Neither of these two types is in conflict with human free will; Because either it may not be related to God or, if it may, it is in such a manner that is in full agreement with human authority. But the primary guidance, which means showing the way to perfection and happiness to man, and the penal guidance, which is the resu...

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...