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Of the many claims which Descartes’s rationalist followers have found problematic some of his pronouncements on the will are the most controversial. Among the examples the first is a remark in Descartes’s earliest, unpublished notes (1619-20?) found by Leibniz:
Tria mitabilia fecit Dominus: res ex nihilo liberum arbitrium et hominem deum. (The Lord made three marvels: things out of nothing, free choice and God in Man. AT X, 218.)
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Alanen, L. (2002). Descartes on the Will and the Power to do Otherwise. In: Lagerlund, H., Yrjönsuuri, M. (eds) Emotions and Choice from Boethius to Descartes. Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0506-7_12
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