Mitigating the Necessity of the Past in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century: Future-Dependent Predestination

Vivarium 58 (1-2):29-64 (2019)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Early twelfth-century logicians invoked past-tensed statements with future-oriented contents to undermine the assumption that every proposition ‘about the past’ is determinate. In the second half of the century, the notion of future-dependence was used to restrict the scope of necessity per accidens. At some point, this idea began to be applied in theology to solve puzzles surrounding predestination, prescience, prophecy, and faith. In the mid-1160s, Magister Udo quotes some thinkers who insisted that the principle of the necessity of the past should exclude dicta that ‘relate to the future’, such as that he has been predestined. Peter of Poitiers adopted this ‘Ockhamist’ strategy around 1170. We find similar accounts in Simon of Tournai and Alan of Lille, who invoked it in other contexts as well. By the time of Praepositinus of Cremona, Hubert of Pirovano, and Stephen Langton, the restricted principle became something of a common view at Paris.

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 103,449

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Analytics

Added to PP
2019-11-16

Downloads
41 (#573,490)

6 months
13 (#197,488)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Citations of this work

Necessidade temporal em Buridan e Jandun.Guido Alt - 2024 - Veritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 69 (1):e45576.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Introduction.Patrick Todd & John Martin Fischer - 2015 - In John Martin Fischer & Patrick Todd, Freedom, Fatalism, and Foreknowledge. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 01-38.
No (New) Troubles with Ockhamism.Garrett Pendergraft & D. Justin Coates - 2014 - Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion 5:185-208.
Early Supposition Theory II.Sten Ebbesen - 2013 - Vivarium 51 (1-4):60-78.
Introduction.Sharon Todd & Oren Ergas - 2015 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 49 (2):163-169.

View all 7 references / Add more references