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Autore / Author: Anna Rodolfi

Affiliazione / Author affiliation: Università degli Studi di Firenze

Titolo / Title: Profezia e necessità del prophetatum da Pietro di Capua a Tommaso d’Aquino

Abstract: In the early thirteenth century, the connection between the immutability of the truth of prophecy and the necessary character of the announced event, i.e. the modal aspect of the prophetic utterance, is discussed in the quaestiones de prophetia of Peter of Capua, Stephen Langton, William of Auxerre, Alexander of Hales, Philip the Chancellor, Albertus Magnus and, later, Thomas Aquinas. According to all the authors mentioned in the paper, the necessitarianism of the prophetatum (the object of prophecy) occurs only at the logical-propositional level, i.e. in the form of the logical relation connecting the condition or antecedent and the consequent. The fact that prophecy is a sign of divine foreknowledge does not imply a causal capacity with respect to its content, which remains contingent in itself until it is realised, even if necessary per accidens, as a conditional fact.

Keywords: prophecy; necessity; Thomas Aquinas; Peter of Capua; William of Auxerre; Stephan Langton.

English title: Prophecy and the Necessity of the Prophetatum from Peter of Capua to Thomas Aquinas

DOI: 10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua8-5

Collana / Book series: Quaderni di Noctua

Volume: 8

Pagine / Pages: 91-119

Pubblicazione / Publication date: 20/06/2025

Permalink: https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua8-5

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