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Assess the claim that human beings are not really free to make moral choices.

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Have a little read: ... Assess the claim that human beings are not really free to make moral choices. The dispute about whether we are truly 'free' or are subject to forces outside our control that interfere with our freedom is a central issue in ethical discussion. In Christian ethics there are two problems that are seen to impinge on the question of moral freedom. One has to do with the nature of God, and the other with the nature of human beings. If God is omniscient, and has full knowledge of how we are going to act, then it becomes questionable whether our freedom is real or illusory. If we take St. Thomas Aquinas' claim that God's foreknowledge only sees how we 'freely act', or that of Richard Swinburne that God shuts off his foreknowledge in order to leave us free, or Maurice Wiles, who believes that our freedom is beyond God's foreknowledge, then according

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