Ma`rifat Falsafi, Volume 8, Issue 3, No 31, Year 2025 , Pages 103-144
Theological Fatalism and its Solutions
Article Type:
Promotional
Writers:
Mohammad saleh Zarepur / M.A Student of the Philosophy of Logic, Tarbiat Modarres University / zarepour@modares.ac.ir
Seyyed Mohammad Ali Hojjati / Associate Professor, Tarbiat Modarres University / hojatima@modares.ac.ir
Abstract:
One version of theological fatalism argues from God’s infallible foreknowledge in favor of fatalism. Its proponents believe that since God infallibly knows, beforehand, all that a person will do; therefore, one cannot do anything other than the one that God already knows. They conclude that human actions are not intentional.
The authors in this article begin by explaining presumptions that almost all fatalists agree upon. Based on such assumptions, they try to come up with an argument as a basic argument for theological fatalism. And finally, they review the most important solutions and critiques of theological fatalism to map their places regarding the premises of such an argument.
چکیده و کلیدواژه فارسی (Persian)
Title :جبرگرایى الهیاتى و راه حل هاى آن
Abstract:
یکى از تقریرهاى جبرگرایى الهیاتى نظریهاى است که با تکیه بر علم پیشین و خطاناپذیر الهى، به نفع جبرگرایى استدلال مىکند. حامیان این نظریه معتقدند که چون خداوند از پیش به همه اعمال انسان علمِ خطاناپذیر دارد، پس انسان نمىتواند کارى جز آنچه خداوند از پیش مىداند انجام دهد؛ و بنابراین، اعمال انسان اختیارى نیستند. در این مقاله، پس از تشریح پیشفرضهاى مورد قبول اکثریت جبرگرایان الهیاتى، ابتدا برهان پایه جبرگرایى الهیاتى ـ به مثابه استدلالى که مىتواند کمابیش مورد اتّفاق این گروه از جبرگرایان باشد ـ تقریر مىشود و سپس، با بررسى مهمترین راهحلهایى که تاکنون براى این نوع جبرگرایى به دست داده شده است، جایگاه هریک در ارتباط با مقدّمات این برهان تبیین مىشود.
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Zarepur, Mohammad saleh, Saeidi mehr, Mohammad, Hojjati, Seyyed Mohammad Ali.(2025) Theological Fatalism and its Solutions. Ma`rifat Falsafi, 8(3), 103-144
Mohammad saleh Zarepur; Mohammad Saeidi mehr; Seyyed Mohammad Ali Hojjati."Theological Fatalism and its Solutions". Ma`rifat Falsafi, 8, 3, 2025, 103-144
Zarepur, M, Saeidi mehr, M, Hojjati, S.(2025) 'Theological Fatalism and its Solutions', Ma`rifat Falsafi, 8(3), pp. 103-144
