Free and Rational: Suárez on the Will
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- Journal Article
- Year:
- 2013
- Journal Title:
- Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie
- Volume:
- 95
- Issue:
- 1
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- Abstract:
Despite the importance of Suárez’s defense of the freedom of the will at the threshold of early modern philosophy, his account has received scant recent attention. This paper aims partially to redress that neglect. Suárez’s posi- tion can be understood as a balancing act between desiring to attribute libertar- ian freedom to agents and desiring to maintain the will’s status as a rational appetite. Hence, he rejects an intellectualism that says that choices are necessi- tated by the intellect’s judgements (since he does not think that the judgements themselves can be directly free), but affirms that only what is judged good can be chosen.
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- Page Range:
- 1–35
- ISSN:
- 0003-9101
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