The Free-Will Problem in Modern Thought.

Free will and the problem of evil

According to the free-will defence, the exercise of free will by creatures is of such value that God is willing to allow the existence of evil which comes from the misuse of free will. A well-known objection holds that the exercise of free will is compatible with determinism and thus, if God exists, God could have predetermined exactly how the will would be exercised; God could even have predet...

Machiavelli and the Foundation of the Modern Political Thought

The present article intends to start introduction to the political thinking of          Machiavelli by passing through some key concepts in his thinking, and by placing his idea in the area of political thinking. Surveying ethics in Machiavelli’s political thinking needs     separate individual ethics from political (civil) one.  And explaining Machiavelli’s remarks about the category of ethics...

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

The Scope of Man's Free Will

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, Free Will and Mathematical Thought

Some have claimed that Gödel’s incompleteness theorems on the formal axiomatic model of mathematical thought can be used to demonstrate that mind is not mechanical, in opposition to a Formalist-Mechanist Thesis. Following an explanation of the incompleteness theorems and their relationship with Turing machines, we here concentrate on the arguments of Gödel (with some caveats) and Lucas among ot...