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Title: | Winged men and the cast of dice: Anti-finalism and radical materialism in Guillaume Lamy |
Authors: | Del Lucchese, F |
Keywords: | Guillaume Lamy;antifinalism;Cartesian rejection |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Citation: | Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 49 (4): 2010 pp. 527 - 546 |
Abstract: | The controversy over teleology raged in the early modern period with particular intensity. In this paper, I will show that Guillaume Lamy represents a “radical” current of antifi nalism, devoid of weakness, and far from compromise with his adversaries. This antifi nalism makes of Lamy not so much a sincere supporter of the unknowability of God’s ends, as scholars have maintained — in other words, a proto– fi deist — but rather a radical Lucretian materialist, whose aim is to openly distance himself equally from the partial Cartesian |
URI: | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8195137&fileId=S0012217310000673 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9504 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0012217310000673 |
ISSN: | 0012-2173 |
Appears in Collections: | Brunel Law School Research Papers |
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