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Quotation from Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies by Rene Descartes

“the _Perception_ of the _Understanding ought_ to preceed the _Determination_ of the _Will”

Rene Descartes (spoken by The meditator)

Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Meditation IV, trans. William Molyneux (1680)

The principle behind Descartes's account of error and sin: affirming beyond clear perception is an abuse of free will even when the guess is right.

Citation: "the _Perception_ of the _Understanding ought_ to preceed the _Determination_ of the _Will" — Rene Descartes, Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Meditation IV, trans. William Molyneux (1680). (id descartes-meditations-with-objections-q8)

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