Scientia Media
Der Molinismus und das Faktenwissen
Mit einer Edition des Ms. BU Salamanca 156 von 1653
Das molinistische Faktum hat drei Merkmale: Es ist kontingent, es ist Teil einer möglichen Welt, es ist vom Allwissenden notwendig gewußt. Traditionell beruht die Lehre von Gottes Faktenwissen auf dem Dogma vom Vorsprung der göttlichen Willensaktivität. Dieses Dogma ist durch die Scientia Media-Hypothese erschüttert. Worauf beruht es aber dann, daß Gott A vorherweiß, nicht nonA?
Der Streit der Schulrichtungen wird zusätzlich durch eine lateinische Textedition illustriert. Von dem Jesuiten Luke Wadding (1593-1651), dem Autor dieses schwierigen Texts, ist bisher nur bekannt, daß er der Lehrer des Scientia Media-Historikers Gabriel de Henao gewesen ist.
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.
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Table of Contents
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Einführung | pp. ix–xx
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Die nächste Etappe im Historikerstreit über die Gnadenstreitigkeiten | pp. 1–26
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Die Systematisierung der Scientia Media im XVII. Jahrhundert | pp. 27–130
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Luke Wadding SJ. (1593–1651/52) und sein Traktat über Gottes Wissen vom kontingent Zukünftigen | pp. 131–178
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Dossier: Luke Wadding, SJ : By Edmund Hogan SJ. (1831–1917) | pp. 179–184
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Luke Wadding SJ. Tractatus de scientia Dei futurorum contingentium: (Concordia Divinorum et Humanarum t.1, Ms. BU Salamanca 156, fols. 797-914)
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P. Richardus Lynceus, Sacrae Theologiae Doctor, et Magister Salmanticensis, ad Lectorem | pp. 187–190
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Liber quartus: De scientia futurorum contingentium secundum rationem communem ad absolutam et conditionatam, eiusque concordia cum creata libertate, ubi etiam in particulari agitur de scientia absolutorum | pp. 191–430
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Index scholasticus: (unter Angabe der Paragraphen) | pp. 431–434
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Index nominum* | pp. 435–440