Schopenhauer’s point (see Chapter 3): sometimes when we act we are not conscious of causation, but it does not follow, and is not true, that we are conscious of the absence of causation. This interaction between the design argument and the interventionist conception of free will has an interesting moral aspect. Arguably, the two images of God as supernatural, and of our ‘selves’ as equally outside nature, feed off each other. And each leads people to deny the sovereignty of nature. It leads people to see the world as something that ‘we’ have dominion over, just as God does. Whereas the truth
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