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HoP 118 - Fate, Hope and Clarity - Boethius

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Isn't Everything Necessary?

If God providentially knows everything that will happen, then isn't everything necessary? Lady Philosophy admits that it seems so, because God obviously cannot be wrong about anything. But our point of view is not the same as God's and he has an unchanging relationship towards things that change in time. So we should know more think that his foreknowledge implies necessity in a future event than we should think that our ordinary present knowledge impliesnecess in a present event.

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