[net.religion] correction RE: my article on free will and evil

flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (06/13/84)

I cited an article incorrectly, when I argued that free will is compatible
with determinism and thus provides no Theological explanation of evil.  The
article is "Norms and Freedom" by Chin-Tai Kim, in the journal *The
Philosophical Forum*, Volume XII, No. 4, Summer 1981, pp. 311-321.  The
article's main conclusions are that "Agency is this capacity for normative
evaluation of behavior.  And freedom is the possession of an optimal degree
of this capacity and an optimal realization of it."  And this concept of
freedom implies that "the freedom vs. determinism problem indeed turns out
to be a pseudo-problem."  I post this also to net.philosophy because the
article may also interest readers of that group.
				--Paul Torek, umcp-cs!flink