(urth) Theism Supports Free Will Better than Materialism Does

Gerry Quinn gerry at bindweed.com
Sat Oct 11 12:04:02 PDT 2014


On 11/10/2014 19:00, Marc Aramini wrote:
> I've for the most part stayed out of this, but I wanted to bring up 
> some Wolfe stuff here.  It seems there are several points where nature 
> and free will are vital to his narratives, and Book of the New Sun 
> has  in some way created the deterministic exegesis of Wright in 
> Attending Dedalus, which I think is fundamentally opposed to Wolfe's 
> world view.

There's also the issue of Master Ash, who says he thinks his future is 
improbable, but clearly his existence suggests that the future of 
Severian's world is not cast in stone.

- Gerry Quinn



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