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No best world: creaturely freedom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2005

BRIAN LEFTOW
Affiliation:
Oriel College, Oxford, OX1 4EW

Abstract

William Rowe and others argue that if this is a possible world than which there is a better, it follows that God does not exist. I now reject the key premise of Rowe's argument. I do so first within a Molinist framework. I then show that this framework is dispensable: really all one needs to block the better-world argument is the assumption that creatures have libertarian free will. I also foreclose what might seem a promising way around the ‘moral-luck’ counter I develop, and contend that it is in a way impossible to get around.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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