The Problem of Evil: The Current Debate; Section 2: Defenses against Logical Problems of Evil; Chapter 2: The Many Critics of the FWD, Subchapter 2: Mulling over Molinism.
Not that I think the FWD can provide a sufficient answer if it is the only engine or ground of the answer, as I concluded in this article. And I send this because I still fail to see an alternative, unless denying Free Will in a leeway or self-determination sense, which I think isn't as bad as some make it out to be (given FW is indeed not the engine or ground of the defence, but, as I say, a derivative).
One issue I have with Molinism is that since God is the creator of free agents, there should be potentially uncountably infinite free agents available for God to select a finite number to create.
If in that uncountably infinite set, God can't find even a finite set, something is horribly wrong with the distribution, and one has to ask why.
There should be enough agents to at least have a world full of Mother Theresas and Joseph Listers and exclude the Hitlers and Stalins.
Our world looks like a reasonable distribution. We have a few very, very good people, a few very, very bad people, and mostly middling people not very, very good or very, very bad.
That distribution is enough, if there are infinite agents God could make and thus select from, to be able to supply any finite number of very, very good people.
I like your inclusion of Joseph Lister. I have a presentation on Lister once when I was in 5th grade. I was going through an encyclopedia of famous people to see who I should present on, and Lister won out over all the rest.
As to your general point, see (Josh) Rasmussen 2004 for support for your view and (Scott) Hill 2020 for a reply
Very cool!
Hmmm. I guess I really do not see any alternative to the FWD in classical theism if not implying Leibniz monads.
https://theeasyfaith.substack.com/p/true-compatibilism-leibnizian-format?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3yxzby
Not that I think the FWD can provide a sufficient answer if it is the only engine or ground of the answer, as I concluded in this article. And I send this because I still fail to see an alternative, unless denying Free Will in a leeway or self-determination sense, which I think isn't as bad as some make it out to be (given FW is indeed not the engine or ground of the defence, but, as I say, a derivative).
One issue I have with Molinism is that since God is the creator of free agents, there should be potentially uncountably infinite free agents available for God to select a finite number to create.
If in that uncountably infinite set, God can't find even a finite set, something is horribly wrong with the distribution, and one has to ask why.
There should be enough agents to at least have a world full of Mother Theresas and Joseph Listers and exclude the Hitlers and Stalins.
Our world looks like a reasonable distribution. We have a few very, very good people, a few very, very bad people, and mostly middling people not very, very good or very, very bad.
That distribution is enough, if there are infinite agents God could make and thus select from, to be able to supply any finite number of very, very good people.
I like your inclusion of Joseph Lister. I have a presentation on Lister once when I was in 5th grade. I was going through an encyclopedia of famous people to see who I should present on, and Lister won out over all the rest.
As to your general point, see (Josh) Rasmussen 2004 for support for your view and (Scott) Hill 2020 for a reply