Titlebook: Cartesian Theodicy; Descartes’ Quest for Zbigniew Janowski Book 2000 Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000 René Descartes.epistemological problem

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,Descartes — Reader of St. Augustine,background of Augustinian metaphysics is, however, tantamount to saying that there exists a genetic link between the two thinkers, not merely a conceptual resemblance. If so, it is natural to wonder whether Descartes in fact built and developed his metaphysics along the lines of St. Augustine’s theology.

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The , as Theodicy,were inconsistent with his goodness to have created me such that I am deceived all the time, it would seem equally foreign to his goodness to allow me to be deceived even occasionally; yet this last assertion cannot be made.

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Introduction,Yet there is no term that better captures both Descartes’ intention and the overarching argument in the .. Surprisingly enough, with the exception of Sergio Landucci’s study . in which he discusses theodicies of several seventeenth-century thinkers, the . have never been interpreted as theodicy. The

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The , as Theodicy,at he has not brought it about that there is no earth, no sky, no extended thing, no shape, no size, no place, while at the same time ensuring that all these things appear to me to exist just as they do now? What is more, since I sometimes believe that others go astray in cases where they think they

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Human Freedom,ointed out that the two accounts are incompatible and I suggested that the account in the Fourth Meditation is a revision of the account in the First Meditation. It is time now to ask why Descartes returns to this question only in the Fourth Meditation.

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,How Rational is Descartes’ Rationalism?,ng the place of Aristotelian philosophy, but of providing a philosophy that satisfies the demands of Christian religion. To say this is of course tantamount to claiming that Scholasticism did not fulfill this task. Strange as it sounds, this is what Descartes sincerely believed.. What was wrong with