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Boethius Flashcards

1
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What is the best definition of omniscience ?

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Every statement that is true, he knows is true and every statement that is false he knows is false

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What would an omniscient God have ?

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Divine foreknowledge

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An omniscient God in the sense of what would have divine foreknowledge ?

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Truest sense of the word

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What is divine foreknowledge?

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Would know everything that is going to happen and must happen no other alternative

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5
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What is Boethius first view ?

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God is eternal-outside of time

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Who is Boethius ?

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  • 6th century Roman philosopher and senator
  • imprisoned and sentence to death for defending his friend from charges of conspiracy so wrote consolation of philosophy and dialogue between him and lady philosophy
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What century Roman philosopher and senator was Boethius ?

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6th century

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What was Boethius book called ?

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Constellations of philosophy

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What was the dialogue of lady philosophy and Boethius of ?

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Personification of philosophy

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10
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What does Boethius believe ?

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God is eternal and must be outside of time

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How do we experience time according to Boethius ?

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  1. Past
  2. Present
  3. Future
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12
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What does Boethius refer to God as ?

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Simetaneously present

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13
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What does God experience according to Boethius ?

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A unified experience

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14
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What is God not bound by according to Boethius ?

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By time like we are

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15
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What does God experience simultaneously?

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The past , present and future

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God has full knowledge of what according to Boethius ?

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Of every single thing the past, present and future

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17
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What example to use to show God knows all things at once?

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God has infinite amount of TV screens showing him the past, present and future which he experiences all at once

18
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What is the first retort to Boethius ?

A

God’s eternity and omniscience compromises free-will

19
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Retort 1, What does God omniscience and eternity do ?

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  • restriction on our freedom and making free choices if God knows our choice
20
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What does retort 1 says about God

A
  • God has divine Foreknowledge
  • actions are pre-destined
21
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Retort 1: our actions bring about Gods knowledge but does not fit with what ?

A

Does not fit with our understanding of God

22
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Retort 1: what is our understanding of God ?

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Understanding of God being immutable, unchanging and omniscient

23
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Retort 1: our actions can’t be free otherwise what ?

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Would be Changing God’s knowledge

24
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Why is Changing Gods knowledge wrong ?

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Contradiction to our understanding of immutable

25
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What is the conflict for retort 1

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Gods eternal nature and omniscience has compromised free- will either for two reasons

26
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What is the first conflict ?

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God is eternal , immutable , and omniscient but free-will isn’t possible

27
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What is the second conflict , from retort 1:

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God is everlasting, mutable and has limited omniscience and free will is possible

28
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What is Boethius view to retort 1 ?

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We need to understand the nature of God

29
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What is Gods nature according to Boethius ?

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Eternal

30
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What is this view really about ?

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God’s providence , that’s how he oversees the world and our free choice NOT his knowledge of the future

31
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What does God providence allow ?

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Allow free will which can be rewarded or punished afterlife rather than God intervening

32
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What does Fedrich Schleimarcher say ?

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  • when you go out with your best friend for a meal you’re may guess what they’re going to have
  • just like God , he knows what you’re likely to do , not pre-determined
  • God knows what you’re likely to do but your are free to make the choice
33
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What does Friedrich Schleiermarcher say God is ?

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God is everlasting

34
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However If you believe God is everlasting what does it mean ?

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  • God is everlasting he exist within time so running along the same temporal line as us
35
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What does it mean if God has the same temporal timeline as us ?

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He experience time as we do so does not know the future or does not have divine foreknowledge

36
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What are the problems ?

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  • God can’t be omniscience in the truest sense of the world. He doesn’t have infinite knowledge
    OR
  • God has imposed self-limiting restrictions on himself to allow us to have free will
37
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Where can’t God be omniscient ?

A

In the truest sense of the word

38
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Why can’t God be omniscience in the truest sense of the word ?

A

He doesn’t have infinite knowledge

39
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What does God have on himself ?

A

Imposed self-limiting restrictions

40
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By God having imposed self-limiting restrictions on himself what does it allow for us to?

A

Allows us to have free will

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