ON THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN FREEDOM |
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Authors: | Karl Schmitz-Moormann |
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Affiliation: | Karl Schrnitz-Moormann is professor of philosophy and theology, Fachochschule Dortmund, SonnenstraBe 99, 4600 Dortmund 1, West Germany. |
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Abstract: | Abstract. The age–old dilemma of free will and determinism is attacked by proving that both sides are flawed with contingencies, that the notion of eternal law is a theologically tainted projection rather than a reality of the real world that is understood to be evolutionary. Determinism is dissolved into conditionalism. This excludes materialistic scientific explanation of the deterministic style. As it brings forth freedom, evolutionary reality transcends essentially the explanatory possibilities of statistically structured natural laws. The dilemma of determinism and free will based on a logic of contradiction is replaced by an ontology of polarity. |
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Keywords: | contingent law determinism eternal law evolution freedom natural law |
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