The Uses of Thought and Will: Descartes’ Practical Philosophy of Freedom

The European Legacy 27 (3-4):310-320 (2022)
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I offer a reading of the role of freedom in Descartes’ Meditations and other writings that sees freedom’s role in “assenting to ideas” as a matter of psychological possibility, and its role in acti...

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