
HoP 119 - John Marenbon on Boethius
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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God Is a Temporal, Isn't It?
People often talk about Boethius saying that God is a temporal. A lot of people want to have this perhaps rather funny view that metaphysically it's the case that past, present and future are simultaneous with with God's. And therefore, because of this metaphysical status, God grasps everything at once and graspsEverything as being present, because it really is present. Whereas I think all of Boethius commits himself to, and what seems to be his, more likely his position, is that God, because of the way in which God exists, he is able to know what really is the future. But just as we know the present, just in the same way
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