Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 681 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 681 g
Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
ISBN: 978-90-04-08516-9
Verlag: Brill
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Preface XI
I. ARISTOTLE Interpretive Controversy concerning De interp. 9 1
Preliminary Note on Aristotle's Modal Terms 5
Structure of Chapter Nine 6
I. Introduction 8
II. Development of Fatalistic Difficulties 29
Threat of Fatalism 29
Absurdity of Fatalism 42
III. Resolution of Fatalistic Difficulties 47
Necessity and Conditional Necessity 48
Predicating Necessity Collectively and Distri- butively 52
Application to Future Contingent Singular Proposi- tions 55
Summary 57
II AUGUSTINE 59
Turn to Theological Fatalism 59
Augustine's Context of Theodicy 60
Augustine's Problem of Theological Fatalism 63
Augustine's Solution 66
Summary 73
Foreknowledge and Eternity 73
III. BOETHIUS 79
Problem of Theological Fatalism 79
Boethius's Solution 89
Summary 97
IV. THOMAS AQUINAS 99
God's Knowledge of Non-Existents 99
God's Knowledge of Future Contingents 103
Objections to God's Foreknowledge 103
Thomas's Position on God's Foreknowledge 104
Answers to Objections 108
Summary 115
Thomas's Implied Theory of Time 116
God's Knowledge of All Things Through His Essence 118
God's Knowledge as the Cause of Things 121
V.JOHN DUNS SCOTUS 127
Scotus's Position on God's Knowledge 127
Rejection of Previous Opinions 127
Scotus's Own View 134
Objections and Replies 140
Concerning God's Determinate Knowledge 140
Concerning God's Certain and Infallible Knowledge 141
Concerning the Necessity of God's Knowledge 142
Concerning the Compatibility of God's Knowledge with
Contingency 143
Summary 144
VI.WILLIAM OCKHAM 146
God's Determinate Knowledge of Future Contingents 146
Objections 146
Ockham's Position on the Truth Value of Future Con- tingent Propositions 147
Replies to Objections 152
God's Certain and Infallible Knowledge of Future Contin- gents 163
Objections 163
Replies 163
God's Necessary Knowledge of Future Contingents 165
Arguments for Necessity 165
Refutation of Arguments 166
Summary 168
VII.LUIS MOLINA 169
Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents 170
Infallible Knowledge of Future Contingents 171
Reconciliation of Foreknowledge and Contingency 184
Prescience, Providence, and Predestination 198
Prescience 199
Providence 200
Predestination 203
Summary 206
VIII.FRANCISCO SUAREZ 207
God's Knowledge of Actually Future Contingents 208
Basis of God's Foreknowledge of Future Contingents 208
Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Future
Contingency 213
Summary 218
God's Knowledge of Conditionally Future Contingents 218
Defense of Divine Middle Knowledge 219
Basis of God's Middle Knowledge 229
Summary 232
Notes 234
Bibliography 281
Index 292
