Research Catalog

Title

Scientia media : der Molinismus und das Faktenwissen mit einer edition des Ms. BU Salamanca 156 von 1653 / Sven K. Knebel.

Author

Knebel, Sven K.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wadding, Luke, 1593-1651.
• Biblioteca Universitaria de Salamanca. Manuscript. 156.

Description

xx, 440 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"Molinism, formerly an invective, is nowadays a topic of philosophy. This book, however, does not deal with the modern renaissance of Middle Knowledge, rather, it explores its proliferation during the 17th and 18th centuries. The focus shifts from reviewing current trends in Church History to rehearsing the metaphysics that backed up Middle Knowledge. Fact, in Molinism, is threefold: It could have been otherwise, it belongs to some possible world, it is necessarily known by the Omniscient. Whereas the classical account of God's foreknowledge rests on its being postvolitional, the Molinist qualification of this account denies that it applies to the counterfactuals. On what else then does it prevolitionally depend that God knows for sure something to happen rather than not to happen? The Salmantine Treatise on God's foreknowledge edited here provides some additional piece of evidence of a deep Molinist disagreement. Though the manuscript was ready for print in 1653, this business failed and the manuscript fell into oblivion along with its author. The Jesuit Luke Wadding (1593-1651) belongs to a number of men from Waterford who at a time, when intolerance forced Catholics into large scale emigration, hopefully turned towards Spain. He must not be confounded with his famous namesake, the Franciscan friar, who was his cousin"--

Series Statement

Bochumer studien zur philosophie, 1384-668X ; Band 60

Uniform Title

Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie ; b. 60.

Subject

• Wadding, Luke, 1593-1651
• Biblioteca Universitaria de Salamanca
• God > Omniscience
• Free will and determinism
• Molinism
• Contingency (Philosophy)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 21-8329

ISBN

• 9789027208514
• 9027208514

LCCN

2021005954

OCLC

1237252394

Author

Knebel, Sven K., author.

Title

Scientia media : der Molinismus und das Faktenwissen mit einer edition des Ms. BU Salamanca 156 von 1653 / Sven K. Knebel.

Publisher

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Bochumer studien zur philosophie, 1384-668X ; Band 60

Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie ; b. 60.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Container of (expression): Wadding, Luke, 1593-1651. Tractatus de scientia Dei futurorum contingentium.

Biblioteca Universitaria de Salamanca. Manuscript. 156.

Other Form:

Online version: Knebel, Sven K. Scientia media Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021 9789027260079 (DLC) 2021005955

Research Call Number

JFE 21-8329