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Author | : Katherin Rogers |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2008-06-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191552410 |
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Can human beings be free and responsible if there is a God? Anselm of Canterbury, the first Christian philosopher to propose that human beings have a really robust free will, offers viable answers to questions which have plagued religious people for at least two thousand years: If divine grace cannot be merited and is necessary to save fallen humanity, how can there be any decisive role for individual free choice to play? If God knows today what you are going to choose tomorrow, then when tomorrow comes you have to choose what God foreknew, so how can your choice be free? If human beings must have the option to choose between good and evil in order to be morally responsible, must God be able to choose evil? Anselm answers these questions with a sophisticated theory of free will which defends both human freedom and the sovereignty and goodness of God.
Author | : Katherin Rogers |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2008-06-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199231672 |
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Can human beings be free and responsible if there is an all-powerful God? Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) offers viable answers to questions which have plagued religious people for at least two thousand years. Katherin Rogers examines Anselm's reconciliation of human free will and divine omnipotence in the context of current philosophical debates.
Author | : Anselm |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2002-03-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 160384080X |
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In these three dialogues, renowned for their dialectical structure and linguistic precision, Anselm sets out his classic account of the relationship between freedom and sin--its linchpin his definition of freedom of choice as the power to preserve rectitude of will for its own sake. In doing so, Anselm explores the fascinating implications for God, human beings, and angels (good and bad) of his conclusion that freedom of choice neither is nor entails the power to sin. In addition to an Introduction, notes, and a glossary, Thomas Williams brings to the translation of these important dialogues the same precision and clarity that distinguish his previous translation of Anselm's Proslogion and Monologion, which Professor Paul Spade of Indiana University called "scrupulously faithful and accurate without being slavishly literal, yet lively and graceful to both the eye and ear.
Author | : G. Stanley Kane |
Publisher | : New York : Edwin Mellen Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Download Anselm's Doctrine of Freedom and the Will Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Pays special attention to Anselm's theory of the will and the three ways in which he used the term. This study also explores Anselm's definition of freedom and the relationship between grace and freedom.
Author | : Katherin A. Rogers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Liberty |
ISBN | : 9780191716089 |
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Can human beings be free and responsible if there is an all-powerful God? Anselm of Canterbury offers viable answers to questions which have plagued religious people for at least 2000 years. Katherin Rogers examines Anselm's reconciliation of human free will and divine omnipotence in the context of philosophical debates.
Author | : Brian Davies |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2004-12-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521002059 |
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Author | : Hugh J. McCann |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0190611200 |
Download Free Will and Classical Theism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The articles in the present collection deal with the religious dimension of the problem of free will. Together they provide a historical and contemporary overview of problems in the theology of freedom, along with recent work by some important philosophers in the field aimed at resolving those problems.
Author | : Katherin A. Rogers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0198743971 |
Download Freedom and Self-creation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Katherin A. Rogers presents a new theory of free will, based on the thought of Anselm of Canterbury. We did not originally produce ourselves. Yet, according to Anselm, we can engage in self-creation, freely and responsibly forming our characters by choosing 'from ourselves' (a se) between open options. Anselm introduces a new, agent-causal libertarianism which is parsimonious in that, unlike other agent-causal theories, it does not appeal to any unique and mysterious powers to explain how the free agent chooses. After setting out Anselm's original theory, Rogers defends and develops it by addressing a series of standard problems levelled against libertarianism. These include the problem of 'internalism--in that an agent is not the source of his original motivations, how can the structure of his choice ground his responsibility?; the problem of Frankfurt-style counterexamples--Do we really need open options to choose freely?; and the problem of luck--If nothing about an agent before he chooses explains his choice, then isn't the choice just dumb luck? (The Anselmian answer to this perennial criticism is especially innovative, proposing that the critic has the relationship between choices and character exactly backwards.) Finally, as a theory about self-creation, Anselmian Libertarianism must defend the tracing thesis, the claim that an agent can be responsible for character-determined choices, if he, himself, formed his character through earlier a se choices. Throughout, the book defends and exemplifies a new methodological suggestion: someone debating free will ought to make his background world view explicit. In the on-going debate over the possibility of human freedom and responsibility, Anselmian Libertarianism constitutes a new and plausible approach.
Author | : Brian Leftow |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : God |
ISBN | : 019289692X |
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"Anselm of Canterbury gave the first modal "ontological" argument for God's existence. Yet, despite its distinct originality, philosophers have mostly avoided the question of what modal concepts the argument uses, and whether Anselm's metaphysics entitles him to use them. Here, Brian Leftow sets out Anselm's modal metaphysics. He argues that Anselm has an "absolute", "broadly logical", or "metaphysical" modal concept, and that his metaphysics provides acceptable truth makers for claims in this modality. He shows that his modal argument is committed (in effect) to the Brouwer system of modal logic, and defends the claim that Brouwer is part of the logic of "absolute" or "metaphysical" modality. He also defends Anselm's premise that God would exist with absolute necessity against all extant objections, providing new arguments in support of it and ultimately defending all but one premise of Anselm's best argument for God's existence"--
Author | : Saint Anselm (Archbishop of Canterbury) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Atonement |
ISBN | : |
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