Obligation Beyond Capacity: Possibility, Ability, and Moral Judgment

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• What condition is central to the statement that a servant is not charged beyond their capacity?
• Which classification of “impossible” is appropriate in this discussion?
• What makes combining contraries intrinsically impossible?
• Why does a person sitting in the morning and standing in the evening not combine contraries?
• What is the important distinction in the example of creating a body?
• Which conclusion does NOT necessarily follow from “that command never occurred”?
• If God knows that a person will not believe, what is the status of “believing” considered as an act?
• Why does divine foreknowledge not immediately imply human compulsion?
• How do a religious command and the actual occurrence of the act relate?
• What problem arises when an occurrence is assumed contrary to an infallible divine report?
• What does “God does not burden a soul beyond its capacity” most directly establish?
• What is illustrated by “Tell Me the names of these”?
• Which interpretation of the prayer not to bear what we cannot endure is discussed?
• Which three senses of good and bad are distinguished?
• Calling knowledge a perfection and ignorance a deficiency illustrates which sense?
• If rain benefits a farmer but inconveniences a traveler, what sense of value is illustrated?
• What is the core question in the third sense of good and bad?
• What is the central premise of the Muʿtazilī objection to charging the incapable?
• Which distinction accurately states the Ashʿarī position in this discussion?
• How should the Māturīdī treatment of rational good and bad be expressed?
• In “if this act occurred the divine report would be false,” where exactly does the contradiction lie?
• What distinguishes “Zayd believes” from “Zayd believes while infallible contrary knowledge is false”?
• What is meant by something possible in itself?
• Which explanation best captures impossibility through another condition?
• What does not follow from an action being possible in itself?
• Which method correctly analyzes the problem of obligations beyond capacity?
• Issuing a religious command to someone and that person’s actually complying are the same event.
• A person being at rest and moving at different times is not a genuine example of intrinsically impossible contraries.
• Recognizing perfection and defect is equivalent to judging each person’s religious reward or punishment.
• An act’s nonoccurrence in relation to divine foreknowledge and its intrinsic self-contradiction are different issues.