Concerning human freedom and God’s knowledge of the future,…

Concerning human freedom and God’s knowledge of the future,…

-Concerning human freedom and God’s knowledge of the future, Augustine arguesGroup of answer choices

God has perfect knowledge of the future, yet, human choices are free

God does not know the future, so humans are free in their choices

God knows the future with respect to physical events, but he cannot know our future free choices

God has perfect knowledge of the future, so there is no human freedom

2-The two cities Augustine discusses in his philosophy of history are

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the city of the world and the city of God

Athens and Jerusalem

Carthage and Rome

Plato’s Rebublic and Aristotle’s city-state

3-Concerning God’s relationship to history, Augustine claims

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God had total, complete control over every event in history

God works in history, but his purposes can be frustrated by human choices

God is only concerned with the eternal destiny of human souls and not with the events in history

historical events are entirely the result of human choices to which God’s responds if he deems it necessary

4-In his solution to the problem of evil, Augustine says that

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all of the above

some things only seem evil, but are really ways to achieve the good

everything that is not God will necessarily have some imperfection

The only genuine evil is moral evil which is the result of the human will

4-Concerning proofs for the existence of God Augustine believed

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they will be effective only if one’s heart is open to receive divine truth

the world offers no evidence for God

that since reason is a neutral instrument, such proofs will convince any clear-thinking person

religious issues cannot be approached philosophically

5-With is doctrine of divine illumination Augustine rejected Plato’s theory that

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the soul obtained knowledge in a previous life

we know non physical forms

the discovery of truth is a kind of “the remembering”

truth is found beyond the physical world

6-Concerning the relationship between the intellect and the will, Augustine says that

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the intellect always follows the will, which is moved by what it loves

the intellect always guides the will

the intellect and the will are separate faculties which do not interact

sometimes our actions are caused by our intellect and sometimes by our wills