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La liberté et sa détresse, ou, Le désenchantement de la modernité
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ISBN: 2870600399 9782870600399 Year: 1994 Volume: 2 Publisher: Bruxelles Ousia

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Contingency and freedom : Lectura I 39
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ISBN: 0792327071 9048143675 9401582750 Year: 1994 Volume: 42 Publisher: Dordrecht ; Boston ; London Kluwer Academic

L'expérience intérieure de la liberté et autres essais de philosophie morale
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ISBN: 2130460364 9782130460367 Year: 1994 Volume: *4 Publisher: Paris Presses universitaires de France

Nature et liberté chez Diderot : après l'Encyclopédie
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ISBN: 2740000162 9782740000168 Year: 1994 Publisher: Paris : Universitas,


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Kant's compatibilism
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ISBN: 0801429234 Year: 1994 Publisher: Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell university press

The ethical primate : humans, freedom and morality
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ISBN: 0415095301 Year: 1994 Publisher: London Routledge

Divine will and the mechanical philosophy : Gassendi and Descartes on contingency and necessity in the created world
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ISBN: 0521461049 052152492X 9780521524926 9780521461047 9780511529269 0511529260 Year: 1994 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book is about the influence of varying theological conceptions of contingency and necessity on two versions of the mechanical philosophy in the seventeenth century. Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) and René Descartes (1596-1650) both believed that all natural phenomena could be explained in terms of matter and motion alone. They disagreed about the details of their mechanical accounts of the world, in particular about their theories of matter and their approaches to scientific method. This book traces their differences back to theological presuppositions they inherited from the Middle Ages. Theological ideas were transformed into philosophical and scientific ideas which led to the emergence of different styles of science in the second half of the seventeenth century.

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Contingency (Philosophy) --- Free will and determinism --- God --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Philosophy of nature --- Providence and government of God --- Science --- Causation --- Chance --- Fate and fatalism --- Ontology --- Teleology --- Truth --- Philosophy --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Metaphysics --- Misotheism --- Monotheism --- Religion --- Theism --- Compatibilism --- Determinism and free will --- Determinism and indeterminism --- Free agency --- Freedom and determinism --- Freedom of the will --- Indeterminism --- Liberty of the will --- Determinism (Philosophy) --- History --- Will --- History of doctrines --- Providence and government --- Sovereignty --- Descartes, René, --- Gassendi, Pierre, --- Gassendi, Pierre --- Gassendi, Petrus --- Gassendus, Petrus --- Descartes, Renatus --- Cartesius, Renatus --- Descartes, René --- Descartes, René, --- Contingency (Philosophy). --- Necessity (Philosophy). --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Dieu --- Providence divine --- Contingence (Philosophie) --- Nécessité (Philosophie) --- Mécanisme (Philosophie) --- Sciences --- Philosophie de la nature --- Volonté --- Histoire des doctrines --- Histoire --- Philosophie --- Contributions in mechanical philosophy. --- Gassendus, Petrus, --- Petrus Gassendus, --- Gassend, Pierre, --- Arts and Humanities --- God - Will - History of doctrines - 17th century. --- Providence and government of God - History of doctrines - 17th century. --- Free will and determinism - History - 17th century. --- Science - Philosophy - History - 17th century. --- Philosophy of nature - History - 17th century. --- Gassendi, Pierre, - 1592-1655. --- Descartes, René, - 1596-1650. --- Critique et interprétation --- Gassendi, Pierre (1592-1655) --- Mécanisme (philosophie) --- Libre arbitre --- Nécessité --- Contingence --- Philosophie des sciences --- 17e siècle --- Gouvernement

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