Kritika tomistického řešení vztahu Boží determinace a lidské svobody z hlediska dnešní analytické filozofie
A Criticism of the Thomist Solution of the Relationship between Divine Determination and Human Freedom from the Perspective of Contemporary Analytical

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a criticism of the traditional Thomist doctrine of physical premotion from a today’s perspective. Physical premotion is supposed to mediate the divine influence on human will, seen in Aristotelian terms to be an active potency. It is to be a necessary ingredient in the overall analysis of human activity, for it reduces the will from the state of potentiality to that of actuality. The paper explores the logical and ontological relationships between an act of the will and the premotion to that act. If every act is to have a particular premotion of its own, then it is not possible for the will to resist it, which, in fact, jeopardizes human freedom as such. If the relationship between an act of the will and its corresponding premotion be somewhat relaxed to allow resistance, then there ceases to be any sound reason for introducing premotion in the first place. For – apart from its ontological role mentioned above – premotion is the mechanism through which God determines the course of the world.

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