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Part II: Free Will in Peter Martyr Vermigli and Francis Turretin
1 Comment Published by Cynthia R. Nielsen January 30th, 2007 in Francis Turretin, Free Will, Peter Martyr Vermigli, Protestant ScholasticismBy Michael Vendsel
The medievals generally favored Aristotle’s conception over Plato’s. For them, then, the metaphysical portrait of human choosing was an inner drive channeling through the intellect to influence the human will. The same basic debate just described, however, re-emerged within this tradition. Some, in a more Platonic fashion, thought that the intellect exerts a [...]
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