Boethius on God and Time 

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  • Boethius on God and Time
    • God is timeless
      • Augustine also believed this
      • God is eternal- outside of time and unaffected by it
        • Lives in his own eternity
          • 'remaining and enduring, and always living'
        • For him everything is now (past, present and future all at once)
    • Simple necessity
  • Kotarbinski
    • Time is the duration of objects
    • Objects do not exist within time
    • God lives outside of the time process
    • Boethius on God and Time
      • God is timeless
        • Augustine also believed this
        • God is eternal- outside of time and unaffected by it
          • Lives in his own eternity
            • 'remaining and enduring, and always living'
          • For him everything is now (past, present and future all at once)
      • Simple necessity
  • Boethius' solution
    • God knows what we will do so he is responsible for our actions
      • He seeks to separate
        • 1. Knowing what someone will do
          • God knows what we will do , but this is not the cause of what we do
            • 2. Causing someone to act in a particular way
        • 2. Causing someone to act in a particular way
  • If God knows what I will do next the necessairily I must do the thing that God knows that I will do. But it feels to me as if I use my free will to choose what to do next, so how can God know what I am to do next if it is my free choice?

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