A.S. 1.) see Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy (short answer 'easily') A.A.S. 2.) see [DC] Detective Comics #168 (February 1951) (this one is a bit harder, what would Duns Scotus say...?)
But, Boethius, if God knows things by seeing them happen, does that imply that God's knowledge is caused? And what of Divine causality? What does Scotus say about this? Aquinas repeats Boethius when he addresses the subject in Questiones Disputatae Quodlibetum and then proceeds to say that God knows perfectly what men will do because He causes the events to happen, up to and including the act of Free will and the act of Free Will as free. I am assuming that you have the passage in Boethius where he compares the knowledge of God to the man standing on a hill looking down on a plain and seeing a man wlaking across the plain and the sun moving. Do you have different passage in mind?
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But, Boethius, if God knows things by seeing them happen, does that imply that God's knowledge is caused? And what of Divine causality? What does Scotus say about this?
Aquinas repeats Boethius when he addresses the subject in Questiones Disputatae Quodlibetum and then proceeds to say that God knows perfectly what men will do because He causes the events to happen, up to and including the act of Free will and the act of Free Will as free.
I am assuming that you have the passage in Boethius where he compares the knowledge of God to the man standing on a hill looking down on a plain and seeing a man wlaking across the plain and the sun moving. Do you have different passage in mind?
I am eager to discover the Joker's reaction.
Hopefully Duns Scotus would keep his big medieval fransiscan trap shut the heck up.
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