Durand of Saint Pourçain and Future Contingents (Super Sent., I, 38, 3, red. B)

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(Super Sent., I, 38, 3, red. B)

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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA

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Durand of Saint Pourçain and Future Contingents (Super Sent., I, 38, 3, red. B)

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Federica Ventola

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Vita e Pensiero

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07-2023

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10.26350/001050_000399

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0035-6247 (print) | 1827-7926 (digital)

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The 14th-century Dominican theologian and philosopher Durand of Saint Pourçain played a seminal role in the medieval debate on future contingents by stirring up great controversy with his original views. This essay is an analytical study of the d. 38, q. 3 of the Sentences Commentary (Book I), in which Durand poses the question of «whether it is possible to have certain knowledge of the contingent» (de modo cognoscendi contingens). Moreover, the Durandian question of «whether divine science imposes necessity on known things» will also be analysed, stressing how the science of God relates to things as a cause and as certain and infallible knowledge. This study aims to show that Durand uses the notion of necessitas ex suppositione to answer the tricky question: «how is it possible that things happen differently from the way they were foreseen and that, at the same time, divine science can never fail?».