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Ideas for 'The Problem of the Soul', 'works' and 'A Free Will'

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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will

5338	Normal free will claims control of what I do, but a stronger view claims control of thought and feeling [Flanagan]

5344	Free will is held to give us a whole list of desirable capacities for living [Flanagan]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will

23333

The idea of free will achieved universal acceptance because of Christianity [Frede,M]

23337

The Stoics needed free will, to allow human choices in a divinely providential cosmos [Frede,M]

23334

For Christians man has free will by creation in God's image (as in Genesis) [Frede,M]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will

5332	People believe they have free will that circumvents natural law, but only an incorporeal mind could do this [Flanagan]

5345	We only think of ourselves as having free will because we first thought of God that way [Flanagan]