Descartes e a teologia: entre o molinismo e o agostinismo

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Abstract

Starting with Arnauld's objection to the Fourth Meditation I examine Descartes' position in the theological debate that opposed Jansenists and Molinists in the 17th century. I conclude that Descartes was influenced by the two anthropological models that grounded the conflicting theological parties of his time. But because Descartes held only part of each antithetical anthropological model he broke with both. The break explains some of the 17th century reaction to Cartesianism.