God’s Decrees and Middle Knowledge

Anfray, Jean-Pascal

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“…Leibniz himself famously drafted a list of novel concepts introduced by the Jesuits (Theodicy, Preliminary Discourse, § 6). A forerunner in theology was certainly Luis de Molina (1535-1600), with his invention of the concept of "middle knowledge" (scientia media) of so-called "conditional future contingents," i.e., divine knowledge of what free creatures would do under hypothetical circumstances (Freddoso 1988;Knebel 2000;Anfray 2002). Although basically designed as a means of reconciliating God's foreknowledge with human free will, Molina used middle knowledge in his account of predestination, which consists in God's choosing to create an order of things in which creatures act righteously or wrongly out of their own free will (▶ "Grace" and ▶ "Divine Providence").…”

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Jesuit Philosophy

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2020

Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences

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2020

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Leibniz, God and Necessity

Griffin

2012

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Leibniz states that 'metaphysics is natural theology', and this is especially true of his metaphysics of modality. In this book, Michael V. Griffin examines the deep connection between the two and the philosophical consequences which follow from it. Grounding many of Leibniz's modal conceptions in his theology, Griffin develops a new interpretation of the ontological argument in Leibniz and Descartes. This interpretation demonstrates that their understanding God's necessary existence cannot be construed in contemporary modal logical terms. He goes on to develop a necessitarian interpretation of Leibniz, arguing that Leibniz, like Spinoza, is committed to the thesis that everything actual is metaphysically necessary, but that Leibniz rejects Spinoza's denial of God's moral perfection. His book will appeal to scholars of early modern philosophy and philosophers interested in modal metaphysics and the philosophy of religion.

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