Tanrı’nın Ön Bilgisi Meselesinde Orta Bilgi Teorisinin Yeri ve İncelenmesi
The Place and Examination of Intermediate Knowledge Theory in the Issue of God’s Prior Knowledge

Summary/Abstract: The issue of whether a man is free with God's prior knowledge is an important issue discussed in both philosophy and religious thought. Here, we tried to examine the solution proposal of the middle information theory. Is God's foreknowledge an obstacle to man's freedom of action? Different answers have been given to the question of the relationship between God's foreknowledge and human freedom. However, most of these answers either limit the knowledge of God or impose restrictions on the freedom of man in his actions. In this context, the middle information theory developed by Luis de Molina argued that man could be free in his actions, without causing any deficiency in God's knowledge. In this thought, God offers man different options. Man chooses one of these different options of his own free will. Although there are different reasons for the person to perform this action, the sufficient reason for that action is the person himself. Accordingly, there can be no decrease in the knowledge of God and man’s free actions. The middle knowledge theory is a theory that allows human beings to act freely and also offers God a choice at the point of creating free creatures. The most distinctive feature of the intermediate knowledge theory is that man can be free in his actions without any loss of the knowledge of God. This idea is explained based on the following basic assumptions: The first is God, man's knowing which of the different alternatives to choose, and the other is God's explanation of how he knows counterfactual information.

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