PHL341H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter p26: Divine Providence, Immanence, Official
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We need to make assumptions about the agent who performs the act. If this is true, then it can"t have been caused by any event that was not in your power to bring/not bring about. Beliefs and desires: if they cause you to do something, then you would be unable to do anything else. If so, there was a time when they were within your power to acquire or not acquire. Aquinas: every movement btoh of the will and nature proceeds form god as the prime mover - then if the sinner"s action also proceeds from god (the second agent) then sinners aren"t responsible. Objection to that: stratagem to show that determinism and divine providence is consistent with human responsibility. The expression: he could have done otherwise. If he had chosen to do otherwise, then he would have done otherwise.
