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    Establishing harmony between philosophy and religion on t... — Carmelics
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    Establishing harmony between philosophy and religion on the issue of free will is essential.

    Free Will & Foreknowledge
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    • 1.On the issue of free will, philosophical speculation and religious practice intertwine
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    • 2.Religious life is pointless if man is not free to choose
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    • 1.Hard incompatibilists like Derk Pereboom argue that robust free will is incoherent regardless of theological commitments.
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    • 2.If free will cannot be philosophically defended on its own terms, harmonizing it with religious doctrine merely compounds an error.
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    • 3.Religious practice can retain meaning through consequentialist or virtue-based frameworks that require no robust libertarian free will.
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    • 1.Theological voluntarism (Duns Scotus, Ockham) holds that God's absolute will supersedes rational harmony-seeking between faith and reason.
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    • 2.If divine omnipotence entails that God could ordain contradictions, then systematic reconciliation of philosophy and religion is presumptuous.
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    Unsatisfactory as Ibn Daud’s solution may be, he has nonetheless succeeded in removing the contradiction between biblical verses on the issue and thus in establishing harmony between philosophy and religion. It was important for him to demonstrate this harmony with respect to all the topics that led up to the question under consideration, but it is essential with respect to free will, because here philosophical speculation and religious practice intertwine. For Ibn Daud, there is no point in lea
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