Mackie

• Mackie's Free Will Defence

  1. First order goods and 1st order evils (emotions)
  2. Second order goods and 2nd order evils (actions)
  3. Third order good: Free Will
  4. Fourth order good: God
• Mackie's rejection

  • Three attributes of God are logically incompatible with the existence of evil
  • God could have created us to freely always choose good but he did not this therefore God is either:
  • not powerful
  • not loving
  • does not exist
• Evaluation of Mackie's rejection

  • Not free will if we only 'choose' good
  • A world we don't want to live in