The latter, more philosophical, gave exposition in terms of dialectical insight to the problem of freedom that Calvinist predestination (the view that man's destiny is foreknown by God) was then making acute.
Robert J. Yanal argues that repeaters mis-describe their own emotions; they might feel apprehension or fear in relation to a foreknown event, but they mistakenly report it as suspense: "apprehensiveness is not suspense, though the two often occur together" ("The Paradox of Suspense," British Journal of Aesthetics, 1996).
The point, as in Greek tragedy, isn't to floor the audience with some stunning twist, but to charge the foreknown with powerful meanings that release correspondingly powerful emotions.
Only perhaps in a story that turns on the fulfilment of dreams and a sense of the foreknown.
Philosophy identifies (V.4) the character Boethius's central difficulty as lying in the apparent incompatibility between an event's not having a necessary outcome and yet its being foreknown.
There is an important disanalogy between a Frankfurt case and infallible foreknowledge that supports the intuition that an agent retains alternate possibilities even when her act is infallibly foreknown.
The same argument can be applied to any infallibly foreknown act of any human being.
Augustine is anxious, contra the Manicheans and Cicero, to defend the compatibility of divine foreknowledge and human freedom by arguing that the free exercise of the will is among the events foreknown by God and that such foreknowledge in no way detracts from our culpability for our acts of willing [e.g. De Libero Arbitrio III.3 & 4; De Civitate Dei V.9].
Even if the new fact could not have been foreknown, if He did not know it, He did not know all.
But if you are free, would you not be free to avoid doing X? Given that it is foreknown you will do X, it appears you would not be free to refrain from the act.
