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Hi, I'm Peter Adamson.

Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast, brought to you with the support of the Philosophy Department at Kings College London and the LMU in Munich, online at History of Philosophy. net.

Today's episode, Kura, Wura Shura.

Free will in the second scholastic. Some philosophers have, despite having produced extensive and nuanced bodies of work, become

associated above all with just one phrase.

Examples that leap to mind are Decart.

I think, therefore I am.

Lydness, the best of all possible worlds, and Hana Arndt, the banality of evil.

From the 16th century, the best example might be Louis de Molina.

As we'll be seeing, he was a versatile thinker who, among other things, made important contributions on the subject of legal philosophy.

But to speak of Molinism is to refer to just one of his ideas,

which goes by the catchphrase middle knowledge.

This idea and the theory of which it was a part triggered a major controversy, one that gripped Catholic intellectuals around the turn of the 17th century.

And it's still what he's known for today. Perhaps that this is not so inappropriate because he first became a Jesuit

after a spiritual conversion brought on in part by meditating on the example of Mary Magdalene

who turned away from a life of sin to follow Christ.

So though he did explore a wide range of topics in the scholasticism of the day as a professor

in Koomra, Hevera, and finally Madrid, it makes sense that his philosophical work on the

topic of sin and free will should make his name.

The problem he was trying to solve is one that should by now be familiar to us.

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