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366 matches to Free Will
Aristotle. 384-322BC. Greek philosopher, founder of Peripatetics: Unified theory of knowledge. Matter, potentially alive, strives to attain its living form. Stressed observation and logic. Deductive Reasoning. Free Will.
Determinism. All events pre-determined. No free will. Hobbes.
Duns Scotus, John. c1266-1308. British theologian. Immaculate Conception. vs Thomas Aquinas. Reason over faith. Scotism. Absolute primacy of God’s free will.
Free Will. Philosophies which allow that man can more or less determine his own destiny. Fatalism.
Molinism. Doctrine of Spanish Jesuit, Molina 1535-1600. Reconciled free will and divine grace.
Occasionalism. Will is free. God arranges that what man wills, happens. Determinism. Free Will.
Pelagius. c354-c425. Welsh monk. Held heretical view that God rewards the virtuous. Free will, no original sin vs Determinism. Pelagians.
Abstract Expressionism. 1940s New York style of Pollock, Rothko. Spontaneous expression, free of traditional values. Expressionism.
Amistad Affair. 1841. Slaves mutiny on Spanish ship. Sail to US. Declared free by US court.
Anglo-Irish Treaty. 1921. Partitioned Ireland. Irish Free State as Dominion. N. Ireland in UK.
Antarctic Treaty. 1959. 12 nations agree for 30 years of demilitarized, nuclear free scientific study.
Anti-Corn Law League. 1839-46. Cobden and Bright’s pacifist movement for Free Trade, public education, against social reform and Chartists. Corn Laws.
Arminianism. 17C-. Christian movement. Free-will is compatible with God’s sovereignty.
Arms, Assize of. 1181. Forced Brit. free men to acquire arms.
Barabbas. Thief freed by crowd instead of Jesus.
Barbary Piracy. 1518-1830. G. Washington pays $1M to free enslaved seamen 1796. US attacks Tripoli 1815. French sieze Algiers, 1830.
Beaverbrook, Lord. (Maxwell Aitken). 1879-1964. Canadian/British newspaper magnate, politician. Advocated free trade within Commonwealth.
Bennett, Richard B. 1870-1947. Canadian Conservative Prime Minister 1930-5. Advocated Empire Free Trade. Imperial Conference 1932.
Berlin Wall. 1961-89. Soviet troops erect. US guarantees West Berlin’s freedom.
Black and Tans. 1920-22. Brutal British police sent to suppress Irish unrest. Irish Free State.
Black Codes. 1865-6. Strict US local laws to control blacks based on slave codes. Freedmen. Jim Crow.
Bright, John. 1811-89. English Quaker MP: Free Trade Movement. Cobden. Anti-Corn Law.
Capitalism. System of private ownership of property and industry for profit. Free enterprise. Smith.
Cobden, Treaty. 1860. Free trade between Britain and France.
Collins, Michael. 1890-1922. Led Easter Rebellion. First Prime Minister of Irish Free State 1922. Assassinated by extremists.