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• Title:
  Bocheński on divine providence and human freedom
• Creator:
  Łukasiewicz, Dariusz
• Description:
  Prior to his ‘naturalistic turn’, Bocheński was a Thomist and defended the Thomist doctrine as a logically consistent and attractive philosophical system. Some opponents of Thomism interpreted this doctrine, Aquinas’s conception of divine providence included, as a kind of theological fatalism (or theological determinism) incompatible with human freedom. Bocheński dismissed such interpretations as based on “a superficial misunderstanding.” I will try to demonstrate that his criticism of deterministic interpretations of Thomism was not quite justified. The article will present, first, Bocheński’s account of the Thomist doctrine of divine providence, next, the arguments for theological fatalism leading to the conclusion that there is no freedom if Aquinas’s conception of divine nature is assumed. Finally, I will try to show how the dispute between Thomism and its opponents is rooted in some fundamental differences concerning the very concept of human freedom.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2014.05.05;
  2013
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English;
  eng
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Springer Open;
• Subject:
  Józef Maria Bocheński;
  Boethius;
  Thomas Aquinas;
  Zagzebski;
  Compatibilism;
  Determinism;
  Divine providence;
  Freedom of human will;
  Theological fatalism
• Identifier:
  Studies in East European Thought 2013, Vol. 65, No 1-2, pp. 53-63;
  1573-0948;
  http://repozytorium.ukw.edu.pl/handle/item/469
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Kazimierza Wielkiego w Bydgoszczy
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