After I read Holbach's " I Am Determined," I came to the conclusion that Holbach is claiming that freewill is not real but instead an illusion. Although an act may look like it is done of free will, like jumping out the window, have just as much cause as being pushed out. Holbach is claiming that our attention might be pulled to the immediate cause, but we ultimately have no control. He is disputing that man does not have free will. He instead defends determinism. Free will and Determinism cannot coexist so in fact there is no such thing as free will. He believes that every action we take and claim that it was done under our own free will is just an illusion we have taught ourselves since there are so many external factors such as desire and attention that are all caused indeed by external factors that we had no control.
I think that Jean-Paul Sartre would definitely disagree with Holbach, Jean-Paul Sartre believes in the free will of man and the ability to know and exist and judge and not as a subject that has a predestined existence. He believes that all man is responsible to choose his destiny and it is then his responsibility to fulfill that dream of his. If man fails, then he has to work harder the next time and not just accept his faith,He believes that freedom is as basic to humans as much as their consciousness. It is who we are, and it cannot be changed or altered.
I think that Walter T. Stace would disagree with Holbach as well. Stace believed Free will do in fact exist and so did that the deterministic view was also not completely wrong. He believed that the whole argument is based on the misconception of what free will in fact, is. He believes if both sides were to embrace the real definition of free will then the controversy would come to an end. He also believes that this basically a verbal dispute between both sides.
The argument of evil refers to the question of how to reconcile the existence of evil with an omnipotent God. It's an argument that it is not likely or even impossible that both God and evil can coexist. How can there exist such a deity that is all good, all knowing and all-powerful and there still be evil and suffering, Wouldn't that powerful deity prevent the evil from becoming and preventing suffering? That is what I consider the Argument of evil. For example, I had a miscarriage twenty years ago about five months after marrying my husband, I was almost four months pregnant, and it was the worst thing that ever happened to our family. We have been married twenty years now and have four amazing children, but not a day goes by that I don't think of that child. At the time, I questioned the existence of God. I thought why would God let this happen to me, Why would that innocent life have to be lost? It was only my strong faith in God that helped me overcome these thoughts and find some sort of peace with the situation.
The free will defense basically states that God created man so that they can resp...
