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    Augustine's rejection of human freedom apart from divine ... — Carmelics
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    Augustine's rejection of human freedom apart from divine control was not motivated by the fatalist argument from divine foreknowledge.

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    • 1.Augustine regarded the fatalist argument from divine foreknowledge as a complete failure.
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    • 2.Augustine's rejection of human freedom was motivated by considerations of divine grace rather than foreknowledge.
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    • 1.Augustine's extended treatment of foreknowledge in City of God V.9-10 reveals he took the fatalist challenge seriously enough to require systematic refutation.
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    • 2.A thinker who regards an argument as a 'complete failure' typically dismisses it briefly rather than devoting sustained theological architecture to its resolution.
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    • 3.The conceptual framework Augustine develops to rebut foreknowledge fatalism—eternal present, divine timelessness—directly shapes his account of grace and predestination.
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    • 1.Rist and TeSelle have argued that Augustine's anti-Pelagian writings show the foreknowledge problem and grace problem were treated as structurally inseparable doctrinal concerns.
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    • 2.If divine foreknowledge and divine grace both entail that human choices are fixed antecedently, distinguishing their motivational roles in Augustine's rejection of libertarian freedom becomes analytically unstable.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    With that in mind, let us now look at premise (9). This is a form of the Principle of Alternate Possibilities (PAP), a principle that has become well-known in the literature on free will ever since it was attacked by Harry Frankfurt (1969) in some interesting thought experiments. The point of Frankfurt’s paper was to drive a wedge between responsibility and alternate possibilities, and to thereby drive a wedge between responsibility and libertarian freedom. In general, those defending libertarian freedom also defend PAP, and those attacking PAP, like Frankfurt, defend determinism, but some phi...

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