Theology and the Cartesian doctrine of freedom /
Theology and the Cartesian Doctrine of Freedom, now for the first time available in English, was Étienne Gilson's doctoral thesis and part of a larger project to show the medieval roots of Descartes at a time when the very existence of medieval philosophy was often ignored. Young Descartes was...
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South Bend, Indiana :
St. Augustine's Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents Translator's Preface Introduction Part I Divine Freedom Chapter one Descartes and Education at La Flèche. The Texts Chapter two Descartes's Adversaries Chapter three Final Causes and the Idea of Infinity Chapter four The Sources: Duns Scotus and Mersenne Chapter five The Cartesian Account of Divine Freedom and Oratorian Theology Part II Human Freedom Chapter one Error Chapter two The Relations of Understanding and Will. Judgment Chapter three The Critique of Freedom of Indifference. Its Sources Chapter four Human Freedom in the Principia Philosophiae Chapter five Freedom of Indifference from De Libertate to Augustinus Chapter six Descartes and Nascent Jansenism Chapter seven Descartes and Dogmata Theologica of Fr. Petau Conclusion Bibliography Index of Names.