
HoP 276 - Back to the Future - Foreknowledge and Predestination
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Are We Still Free?
According to SCOTUS and other volantris, a free agent is one who can choose between genuinely possible alternatives. But in the case of a human action, there are two free agents involved, not just one. So long as someone freely chooses what will happen, contingency is safeguarded - but it's not much comfort if my action is contingent if it was chosen by God instead of by me.
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