ABSTRACT
This chapter will investigate the relevance of recent discussions of free will for the status of moral evil. Moral evil presupposes the existence of free will, and if recent studies in especially psychology and neuroscience demonstrate that our wills are not free – or that we do not even have wills as we usually understand it – we also have to give up our belief in the existence of moral evil. A world without freedom can contain an enormous amount of suffering, but no moral evil. I argue that we have little reason to give up our belief in the existence of moral evil in light of arguments for general determinism or recent findings in psychology and neuroscience.
