A few years ago @ a church apologetics conference, a proponent of libertarian free will implied there was no point in me disagreeing with his famous expert because this expert was like LeBron James doing layups.
I replied that I did not play basketball...
This same kind gentleman also falsely stated, in my humble opinion, that compatibilism equaled hard determinism.
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Pojman states that hard determinism holds that every event is caused and no one is responsible for actions, whereas soft determinism holds that rational creatures can be held responsible for actions determined, as long as they are done voluntarily and without force or coercion. Pojman (1996: 586).
P.S. Greenspan writes that compatibilism holds to free will and determinism being compatible. Greenspan (1998: 1).
In my view, hard determinism, sometimes called determinism, is a view where it is reasoned there is a primary cause, but there is no legitimate, human, secondary cause, or self-cause, for thoughts, desires, will, acts/actions. In theistic compatibilism, God is always the primary cause pf events, and there can be secondary causes for events including human. From a non-theistic view, the primary cause of events could be considered nature, and I suppose some would state 'science', evolution or fate, as examples.
FEINBERG, JOHN S. (1994) The Many Faces of Evil, Grand Rapids, Zondervan Publishing House.
GREENSPAN, P.S. (1998) Free Will and Genetic Determinism: Locating the Problem (s), Maryland, University of Maryland.
POJMAN, LOUIS P. (1996) Philosophy: The Quest for Truth, New York, Wadsworth Publishing Company.
STACE, W.T. (1952)(1976) Religion and the Modern Mind, in John R. Burr and Milton Goldinger (eds), Philosophy and Contemporary Issues, London, Collier Macmillan Publishers
