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I began this work with two quotations from the First and Fourth Meditations in which Descartes purports to explain the origin and nature of error. I pointed 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.
If it be said that a Power of choosing either Side is contain’d in the very Notion of Liberty; this must be allow’d, but… what need is there then of such a Power as may extend to the choice of Evil? William King, De origine mali
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Janowski, Z. (2000). Human Freedom. In: Cartesian Theodicy. International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées, vol 168. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9144-2_5
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