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What is simple foreknowledge?
Introduction. According to the theory of simple foreknowledge God has direct vision of all future events. God does not cause all these events to hap- pen, nor is his knowledge inferred from what has happened in the past. Rather, God has direct noninferential apprehension of the future.
What is divine omniscience?
Omniscience is an attribute having to do with knowledge; it is the attribute of “having knowledge of everything.” Many philosophers consider omniscience to be an attribute possessed only by a divine being, such as the God of Western monotheism.
What is the Omni word for all seeing?
omniscience
Is God omnipotent and omniscient?
God is omnipotent, omnibenevolent and omniscient. An omniscient being knows every way in which evils can come into existence, and knows every way in which those evils could be prevented.
What is freedom and determinism?
Determinism, in philosophy, theory that all events, including moral choices, are completely determined by previously existing causes. Determinism is usually understood to preclude free will because it entails that humans cannot act otherwise than they do.
What is theological fatalism?
Theological fatalism is the thesis that infallible foreknowledge of a human act makes the act necessary and hence unfree. If there is a being who knows the entire future infallibly, then no human act is free.
Does Boethius believe in free will?
In The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius argues that God allows free will to exist in spite of God’s foreknowledge because foreknowledge has no impact on the events being decided and further God is a timeless entity and therefore perceives the future differently from how we perceive it.
Why is Boethius important?
Boethius’s best known work is the Consolation of Philosophy (De consolatione philosophiae), which he wrote most likely while in exile under house arrest or in prison while awaiting his execution. Boethius intended to translate all the works of Aristotle and Plato from the original Greek into Latin.