Czy wiedzy Boga nie da się pogodzić z wolnością człowieka? Analiza wybranych argumentów

• Authors: Marek Pepliński

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IS DIVINE KNOWLEDGE INCOMPATIBLE WITH HUMAN FREEDOM? AN ANALYSIS OF SOME ARGUMENTS

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The problem that divine omniscience or divine foreknowledge makes free will impossible belongs to notoriously difficult to solve. In XX century one of the most important interpretation of this difficulty was provided by Nelson Pike. If God believes infallibly and in advance how Smith will act, this fact about the past excludes out all alternatives for Smith. But libertarian account of free will requires alternatives possibilities, so, it could be argue that God’s foreknowledge is incompatible with our free will. This paper carefully criticizes Pike’s argumentation and suggests that because God’s foreknowledge doesn’t eliminate future alternatives through causal means, it is compatible with free will and that Pike’s argument and two briefly analyzed standard arguments for fatalism presented by Zagzebski failed.

Keywords

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DIVINE KNOWLEDGE; OMNISCIENCE; FOREKNOWLEDGE; HUMAN FREEDOM; NELSON PIKE; LINDA TRINKAUS ZAGZEBSKI

• Publisher: Oficyna Wydawnicza Epigram
• Journal: Filo-Sofija
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 4(19)
• Pages: 175-192

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Marek Pepliński