%0 Journal Article
%T Free Will, Evil, and Saint Anselm
%A Siobhan Nash-Marshall
%J The Saint Anselm Journal
%D 2008
%I Institute for Saint Anselm Studies
%X In this lecture I concentrate on one of the questions that an adequate definition of freedom must address. The question is one with which many contemporary thinkers are currently concerned: need one have alternate possible courses of action in order to be free? This question admits of many formulations. The specific formulation which I address in this lecture is: must I genuinely be ready to take either one of two possible courses of action¡ªto perform or not to perform a given act¡ªin order for my taking either one of these courses of action to be free? This question is admittedly just a small part of the problem of defining freedom. Nevertheless it is a crucial part of the problem of defining freedom. It is also a part of the problem of freedom about which Saint Anselm had a great deal to say.
%K Saint Anselm
%K Free will
%K Freedom
%K Evil
%U http://www.anselm.edu/Documents/Institute%20for%20Saint%20Anselm%20Studies/Abstracts/4.5.3.2b_52Nash-Marshall.pdf