 Boethius (480-524 AD)  Fluent in both Latin and Greek  Familiar with works of both Plato & Aristotle  Translated Aristotle’s logical works into Latin.

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 Boethius ( AD)  Fluent in both Latin and Greek  Familiar with works of both Plato & Aristotle  Translated Aristotle’s logical works into Latin  Thereby transmits Aristotle’s logical works to early medieval western Europe  Aristotle’s other works remain unknown in western Europe until

 Roman Proconsul to Emperor Theodoric  Christian, opposed to Arian heresy, which denied the full divinity of Christ and which was espoused by Theodoric  Accused of treason, imprisoned & executed  While imprisoned composed The Consolation of Philosophy, which includes an analysis of the problem of freedom and determinism 2

 Is Human Freedom Compatible with God’s omniscience?  If God already knows with complete certainty whatever you will ever do, how could your future be up to you to determine?  How could you be genuinely free in planning your life and enacting your plans if God already knows what you will plan and what you will do? 3

 God foreknows everything that will happen  So, God foreknows my future in full detail  What God foreknows must happen exactly as it does happen  Hence, my future must happen exactly as it does  If my future must happen exactly as it does, then my future is necessary  Thus, my future is necessary  If my future is necessary, then I am not free  Consequently, I am not free! 4

 The preliminary argument conceals a mistake pertaining to how the concept of necessity appears in the argument  It is true that if my future is necessary, then I am not free  But the argument fails to prove that my future is necessary  Hence, the argument fails to prove that I am not free 5

Mistaken version of argument 1. If God foreknows the future, then the future is necessary (This is the mistaken assumption, according to Boethius) 2. God foreknows the future 3. So, the future is necessary 4. If the future is necessary, then I am not free 5. Hence, I am not free Since Boethius rejects 1, he rejects the soundness of this version of the argument 6

1. It is necessary that: [ If God foreknows the future, then the future will happen as God knows it ] 2. Hence, [ If God foreknows the future, then the future will happen as God knows it ] 3. God foreknows the future 4. So, the future will happen as God knows it 5. (4) above does not say that the future, mine or anyone’s, is necessary! 6. Hence, (4) does not preclude freedom, neither mine nor anyone’s 7. Therefore, God’s providence, omniscience and foreknowledge, as expressed by (1)-(3), is compatible with freedom after all! 7