The Jansenist theologian of grace, known as the Great Arnauld to distinguish him from other members of his family, was a tireless worker with encyclopedic interests. Although his point of view was always moral and religious even when treating...

Arnauld, Antoine(1612–1694) Antoine Arnauld, a Jansenist theologian and Cartesian philosopher, was one of the most skilled philosophical and theological controversialists of the seventeenth century. His reputation was such that he was known in...

Antoine Arnauld, (February 6, 1612 - August 6, 1694) — le Grand as contemporaries called him, to distinguish him from his father — was a French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician. He was one of the leading intellectual...

Cartesian dualism is articulated as a particular kind of conundrum in Descartes' Sixth Meditation (1640), where he advances the proof that "I have a body." Here, the incompatibility of Descartes's "I" and his body assumes its most impacted, most aggravated, and, paradoxically, its...

Alexander Sedgwick. The Travails of Conscience: The Arnauld Family and the Ancien R[acute{e}]gime. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. xiii + 297 pp. $45. ISBN: 0-674-90567-9. Basing this study on family papers, notarial records, manuscript collections at the Biblioth[acute{e}que Nationale...