The article focuses on the phenomenon of free will in Paul, taking as starting point Rom. 8:16. At beginning, a concise exegetical analysis Rom 8:16 is presented, placed rhetorical context 8. Subsequently, comparison drawn between Paul’s and Epictetus’s views divine human agency. First, idea freedom presented with special emphasis notion proairesis, understood true self person, responsible for ...

the subject of divine will is discussed in three views of imammieh, moatazeleh, and ashaereh scholars. in views of them, god has will, however, there are differences between their beliefs: is divine will a substance attribute or an attribute surplus to substance is divine will an ancient or created attribute is divine will an affirmative or privative attribute is divine will a real or unreal at...

the present article studies the quran's view on free will and freedom. some related issues discussed here are: (1) human freedom is the basis of the creation; (2) respecting human freedom is the basis of the prophet's invitation of the people to islam; (3) political freedom is the foundation of forming political societies, and so on. with reference to the quranic verses and moslem sch...

Foreknowledge about the demands of an upcoming trial may be exploited to optimize behavioural responses. In the current study we systematically investigated the benefits of partial foreknowledge--that is, when some but not all aspects of a future trial are known in advance. For this we used an ocular motor paradigm with horizontal prosaccades and antisaccades. Predictable sequences were used to...

To examine the roles of executive control and automatic activation in task switching, we manipulated foreknowledge as well as task transitions. In Experiments 1 and 2, performance with foreknowledge was faster than performance with no foreknowledge, but the amount of switch cost did not depend on foreknowledge. This result suggests that switch costs primarily reflect persisting activation rathe...

explaining the goal and way of creation and regarding god as a creator not as an agent, this paper has studied god`s unity in action meant by negating free and full agency from all but god. having proved the fact that the only real efficient of the universe is god, it explains the part of human being in what happens in his life with regard to predestination and destiny. as is understood, events...