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Winged men and the cast of dice: Anti-finalism and radical materialism in Guillaume Lamy
The controversy over teleology raged in the early modern period with
particular intensity. In this paper, I will show that Guillaume Lamy represents a
“radical” current of antifi nalism, devoid of weakness, and far from compromise with
his adversaries. This antifi nalism makes of Lamy not so much a sincere supporter of the
unknowability of God’s ends, as scholars have maintained — in other words, a proto–
fi deist — but rather a radical Lucretian materialist, whose aim is to openly distance
himself equally from the partial Cartesia