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Divine Foreknowledge and Human Moral Responsibility (In Defense of Muslim Philosophers’ Approach) [PDF]
According to most Muslim philosophers, the Divine foreknowledge, on the one hand, is so inclusive that encompasses each and every minor and timed action of moral agents, and because of the perfection of God in essence and attributes, any defects in His ...
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Infallible Divine Foreknowledge cannot Uniquely Threaten Human Freedom, but its Mechanics Might [PDF]
It is not uncommon to think that the existence of exhaustive and infallible divine foreknowledge uniquely threatens the existence of human freedom. This paper shows that this cannot be so.
Byerly, T. Ryan
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Time, Truth, Actuality, and Causation: On the Impossibility of Divine Foreknowledge [PDF]
In this essay, my goal is, first, to describe the most important contemporary philosophical approaches to the nature of time, and then, secondly, to discuss the ways in which those different accounts bear upon the question of the possibility of divine ...
Tooley, Michael
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Pedro de Ledesma is one of the Dominican theologians of the School of Salamanca involved in the De Auxiliis controversy, i.e., the disputes around a famous book by Luis de Molina on the relation between divine foreknowledge and providence and our free ...
David Torrijos-Castrillejo
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This is an English translation of Emilie Du Châtelet's "Sur la liberté." This 18th century text discusses freedom of the will, determinism, and divine foreknowledge. Translated from French by Julia Jorati, with the help of Julie Roy.
du Châtelet, Émilie
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Edwards on the Incompatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will
In the book “Freedom of the Will”, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) put forward a strong argument for theological fatalism. This argument, I suppose, can be considered as the universal basis for discussion between Fatalists and Anti-Fatalists in the 20th ...
Oleh Bondar
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Divine and Conventional Frankfurt Examples [PDF]
The principle of alternate possibilities (PAP) says that you are morally praiseworthy or blameworthy for something you do only if you could have done otherwise. Frankfurt examples are putative counterexamples to PAP.
Ishtiyaque Haji
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Future Contingents and the Logic of Temporal Omniscience [PDF]
At least since Aristotle’s famous 'sea-battle' passages in On Interpretation 9, some substantial minority of philosophers has been attracted to the doctrine of the open future--the doctrine that future contingent statements are not true. But, prima facie,
Belnap Nuel +51 more
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Early-Modern Irreligion and Theological Analogy: A Response to Gavin Hyman’s A Short History of Atheism [PDF]
Historically, many Christians have understood God’s transcendence to imply God’s properties categorically differ from any created properties. For multiple historical figures, a problem arose for religious language: how can one talk of God at all if none ...
Linford, Dan
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Allameh Tabatabaei and William Craig on Theological Fatalism; A Comparison Study [PDF]
According to the theological fatalism, future matters are necessary and this necessity makes them unalterable; so, human beings are not able to make the future by their free will and this is incompatible with human freedom.
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