In the quoted passage, Dante asks his ancestor to tell him plainly what fortune approaches, describing earlier warnings as grievous but saying foreknowledge lets the arrow land more gently.
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In the quoted passage, Dante asks for a plain account of approaching fortune and says foreknown suffering lands more gently, while the ancestor distinguishes eternal vision from necessity by comparing it to a downstream ship seen without causing its motion.
A student frames the central objection to providence as the case of Dante's persecutors: if God foreknows their evil, it becomes difficult to separate foreknowledge from planning.
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"Like Phaethon, one who still makes fathers wary of sons, when he had heard insinuations, and he, to be assured, came to Clemene, such..."
"heals souls and when descending to the dead world, what I heard about my future life were grievous words. Although against the blows of..."
"Verse 25. Thus my desire would be appeased if I might know what fortune is approaching me. The arrow one foresees arrives more gently...."
"so follow -up question so if god has a plan and god allows you to use your free will to turn away the let's..."
"them to commit do what they did in that case how did god know about it okay okay you're assuming"
"like how how god knew that what the bad guys were gonna do if the bad guys really had free will and if they..."
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