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Is Free Will an Illusion? The Metaphysics and Psychology of Choice | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

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Is Free Will Compatible With Divine Foreknowledge?

Augustine raises these questions as a christian, but they are not specifically christian problems. His answers depend on philosophical, especially neo platonic principles. For augustine, the relevant notion of causality is not a necessary and sufficient prior material condition for an effect to take place. Any event must be explained by reference to its conditions of actualization. The conditions of the being of a good human act include both the human will as the genuine, immediate, proximate cause, and the divine will,. which, as the source of all good, must be the remote, ultimate cause of the being.

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