naa a22 4500 510789161 CHVBK 20180411083313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11406-013-9483-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11406-013-9483-9 Dvořák Petr Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic aut The Concurrentism of Thomas Aquinas: Divine Causation and Human Freedom [Elektronische Daten] [Petr Dvořák] The paper deals with the problem of divine causation in relation to created agents in general and human rational agents in particular. Beyond creation and conservation, Aquinas specifies divine contribution to created agents' operation as application in the role of the first cause and the operation of the principal cause employing an instrumental cause. It is especially the latter which is open to varying interpretation and which might be potentially threatening to human freedom. There are different readings of what it is for the secondary agent to "act through the power of the principal cause”. Either the divine cause causes only the existence of the effect of the secondary cause, or it also causes the cause to operate in the sense that it determines its outcome. The latter seems to contradict human freedom. Both readings of Aquinas were developed in the latter half of the sixteenth century within scholastic philosophy and theology. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Concurrentism nationallicence Human freedom nationallicence Causation nationallicence Thomism nationallicence Scotism nationallicence Molinism nationallicence Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/3(2013-09-01), 617-634 0048-3893 41:3<617 2013 41 11406 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9483-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9483-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dvořák Petr Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/3(2013-09-01), 617-634 0048-3893 41:3<617 2013 41 11406 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer