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Jules Lequier was a French philosopher from Brittany, born on the 30th of January 1814 and died on the 11th of February 1862. He is known for his philosophy of dynamic divine omniscience, which holds that God's knowledge of the future consists of possibilities rather than fixed certainties.
Jules Lequier died on the 11th of February 1862, presumably by suicide, by swimming out into the ocean. He was 48 years old at the time of his death.
Lequier believed that omniscience means knowing necessary facts as necessary and contingent facts as contingent. Since the future does not yet exist beyond a realm of abstract possibilities, he argued that God does not know the future as a fixed and unalterable state of affairs.
Lequier's framework suggests a partial resolution to the apparent inconsistency between human-wrought evil and the perfect goodness, power, and knowledge of God. By preserving genuine human freedom through a non-fixed divine foreknowledge, his approach allows that evil actions are truly the product of human choice rather than divine determination.
Two English-language volumes were published by Edwin Mellen Press in Lewiston, New York. The first, from 1998, includes The Hornbeam Leaf, The Dialogue of the Predestinate and the Reprobate, and Eugene and Theophilus. The second, from 1999, contains Abel and Abel alongside Incidents in the Life and Death of Jules Lequyer.
Jules Lequier was from Brittany, in France. He was born on the 30th of January 1814 and is one of the relatively few philosophers associated with that region.