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Descartes's Soul | Prof. Jorge Secada

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The Movement From Ethics to Ethics and Audience Ethics

Descartes was an occassianist. He did have one notion of causation and he did think that some creatures have that causal power. So he was a restricted, a limited occassionalist in that sense. And he doesn't confront the problems with freedom that Malabrash does. Completely radical occassianists have a problem. How do you explain free acts and how do you make people responsible for anything? That's how I read him.

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