This article explores a question that exercised Thomas Aquinas, the nature of God’s knowledge of creation, and more particularly, its practical character. It first sets out the logic of Aquinas’s position, articulated especially in Summa Theologiae I, q. 14, a. 16, that God does have practical knowledge of creation, but that this is contained within God’s speculative self-knowledge. It suggests that this position raises questions about the adequacy of its treatment of practical knowledge, particularly to do with the central analogy of an artisan’s knowledge of what is made. The article explores these questions, first, by drawing on contemporary philosophical discussions of practical knowledge, and second, by considering a biblical text in which both a form of practical knowledge and of the artisan analogy are prominent: the book of Proverbs.

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论上帝对创造的实用知识

本文探讨了托马斯·阿奎那 (Thomas Aquinas) 的一个问题，即上帝创造知识的本质，尤其是其实际特性。它首先阐述了阿奎那立场的逻辑，特别是在Summa Theologiae我，q。14，一个。16，上帝确实有创造的实际知识，但这包含在上帝的思辨自我知识中。它表明，这一立场引发了关于其处理实践知识的充分性的问题，特别是与工匠对所制造的知识的核心类比有关。本文探讨了这些问题，首先，通过借鉴当代关于实践知识的哲学讨论，其次，通过考虑一种圣经文本，其中一种形式的实践知识和工匠类比都很突出：箴言书。