Jules Lequier [SEP] date of death
Jules Lequier
Jules Lequier (or Lequyer, ; 30 January 1814 – 11 February 1862) was a French philosopher from Brittany. Lequier came to death, presumably as a suicide, by swimming out into the ocean.
Philosophical work.
Lequier wrote in favour of dynamic divine omniscience, wherein God's knowledge of the future is one of possibilities rather than actualities. Omniscience, under this view, is the knowledge of necessary facts as necessary, and contingent facts as contingent. Since the future does not yet exist as
Leaf, The Dialogue of the Predestinate and the Reprobate, Eugene and Theophilus" (Lewiston, New York, Edwin Mellen Press, 1998).
- "Jules Lequyer’s "Abel and Abel" Followed by "Incidents in the Life and Death of Jules Lequyer"" (Lewiston, New York, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999).
External links.
- "Jules Lequyer (Lequier)" article in the "Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy"