The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents from Aristotle to Suarez

The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents from Aristotle to Suarez
Title The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents from Aristotle to Suarez PDF eBook
Author William Lane Craig
Publisher BRILL
Pages 318
Release 1988
Genre Religion
ISBN 9789004085169

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Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom

Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom
Title Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom PDF eBook
Author William Lane Craig
Publisher BRILL
Pages 390
Release 1991
Genre Religion
ISBN 9789004092501

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The ancient problem of fatalism, more particularly theological fatalism, has resurfaced with surprising vigour in the second half of the twentieth century. Two questions predominate in the debate: (1) Is divine foreknowledge compatible with human freedom and (2) How can God foreknow future free acts? Having surveyed the historical background of this debate in "The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge" and "Future Contingents from Aristotle to Suarez" (Brill: 1988), William Lane Craig now attempts to address these issues critically. His wide-ranging discussion brings together a thought- provoking array of related topics such as logical fatalism, multivalent logic, backward causation, precognition, time travel, counterfactual logic, temporal necessity, Newcomb's Problem, middle knowledge, and relativity theory. The present work serves both as a useful survey of the extensive literature on theological fatalism and related fields and as a stimulating assessment of the possibility of divine foreknowledge of future free acts.

The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge

The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge
Title The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge PDF eBook
Author Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 224
Release 1996-04-25
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0195355407

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This original analysis examines the three leading traditional solutions to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human free will--those arising from Boethius, from Ockham, and from Molina. Though all three solutions are rejected in their best-known forms, three new solutions are proposed, and Zagzebski concludes that divine foreknowledge is compatible with human freedom. The discussion includes the relation between the foreknowledge dilemma and problems about the nature of time and the causal relation; the logic of counterfactual conditionals; and the differences between divine and human knowing states. An appendix introduces a new foreknowledge dilemma that purports to show that omniscient foreknowledge conflicts with deep intuitions about temporal asymmetry, quite apart from considerations of free will. Zagzebski shows that only a narrow range of solutions can handle this new dilemma. A compelling contribution to the field, The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge will appeal to students and scholars of theistic philosophy and the philosophy of religion.

Would You Lie to Save a Life

Would You Lie to Save a Life
Title Would You Lie to Save a Life PDF eBook
Author Michael Glenn Maness
Publisher AuthorHouse
Pages 433
Release 2007-09
Genre Education
ISBN 1418478180

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The Sparrow and the Crow is and will be an epic journey, deep within your wildest imagination. It takes you in places that light cannot exist, but love does. It makes you fear what you don't believe and except what you can't conceive. Christ was a flower, a perfect flower, taken into the eye of the sparrow. Hatred, rage, anger became justice, caught within the heart of the crow. The power of Christ has traveled through the ages, searching for two people, a man and a woman, who are not perfect before God; but their hearts are pure and one with creation. They are the chosen ones. Two people willing to die for each other, for no other reason than to preserve a single burning light within a darkened night. A candlelight, burning within the Eye of the Sparrow. His promise to Adam and Eve becomes the Omen of the Crow. That he who seeks the rose shall inherit the Heavens and Earth forever more.

Medieval Philosophy

Medieval Philosophy
Title Medieval Philosophy PDF eBook
Author Peter Adamson
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 660
Release 2019-09-26
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0192579932

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Peter Adamson presents a lively introduction to six hundred years of European philosophy, from the beginning of the ninth century to the end of the fourteenth century. The medieval period is one of the richest in the history of philosophy, yet one of the least widely known. Adamson introduces us to some of the greatest thinkers of the Western intellectual tradition, including Peter Abelard, Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, and Roger Bacon. And the medieval period was notable for the emergence of great women thinkers, including Hildegard of Bingen, Marguerite Porete, and Julian of Norwich. Original ideas and arguments were developed in every branch of philosophy during this period - not just philosophy of religion and theology, but metaphysics, philosophy of logic and language, moral and political theory, psychology, and the foundations of mathematics and natural science.

Prophecy

Prophecy
Title Prophecy PDF eBook
Author Howard Kreisel
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 681
Release 2012-12-06
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9401008205

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More than any other topic, prophecy represents the point at which the Divine meets the human, the Absolute meets the relative. How can a human being attain the Word of God? In what manner does God, when conceived as eternal and transcendent, address corporeal, transitory creatures? What happens to God's divine Truth when it is beheld by minds limited in their power to apprehend, and influenced by the intellectual currents of their time and place? How were these issues viewed by the great Jewish philosophers of the past, who took the divine communication and all it entails seriously, while at the same time desired to understand it as much as humanly possible in the course of dealing with a myriad of other issues that occupied their attention? This book offers an in-depth study of prophecy in the thought of seven of the leading medieval Jewish philosophers: R. Saadiah Gaon, R. Judah Halevi, Maimonides, Gersonides, R. Hasdai Crescas, R. Joseph Albo and Baruch Spinoza. It attempts to capture the `original voice' of these thinkers by looking at the intellectual milieus in which they developed their philosophies, and by carefully analyzing their views in their textual contexts. It also deals with the relation between the earlier approaches and the later ones. Overall, this book presents a significant model for narrating the history of an idea.

The Problem of the Rational Soul in the Thirteenth Century

The Problem of the Rational Soul in the Thirteenth Century
Title The Problem of the Rational Soul in the Thirteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Richard C. Dales
Publisher BRILL
Pages 232
Release 1995
Genre Science
ISBN 9789004102965

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This study of the interaction of the Aristotelian and Augustinian views of the soul traces the disarray of Latin concepts by 1240, the solutions of Bonaventure and Aquinas, the monopsychism controversy, and the variety of reactions to Aquinas's "De unitate intellectus."