Francisco Suarez on the Ontological Status of Divine Action: Implications for the Freewill Debate
It has recently been argued that God's causation of human free choices is best understood in light of Aquinas's teaching on creation. Such a position is attractive because it provides a way of avoiding the compatibilism of classical interpretations of Aquinas. However, this position may be...
| Published in: | American catholic philosophical quarterly |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Philosophy Documentation Center
[2016]
|
| In: |
American catholic philosophical quarterly
|
| Further subjects: | B
FREE will & determinism
B Ontology B SUAREZ, Francisco, 1548-1617 B THOMAS, Aquinas, Saint, ca. 1225-1274 B Categories (Philosophy) |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | It has recently been argued that God's causation of human free choices is best understood in light of Aquinas's teaching on creation. Such a position is attractive because it provides a way of avoiding the compatibilism of classical interpretations of Aquinas. However, this position may be subject to other flaws. In fact, Francisco Suarez explicitly rejects the view that God's creative causality can be understood either as the divine essence or as a predicamental relation of the created effect to God. The purpose of this essay is to investigate, first, whether Suarez's view of efficient causality rules out conceptualizing God's motion of the will in terms of creation, and second, whether it provides a more plausible alternative. I argue on both points that it does not, and that an error common to both Suarez and his sixteenth-century opponents is one reason to conceptualize divine motion as a kind of creation. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 2153-8441 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American catholic philosophical quarterly
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/acpq201691398 |