 But he faults Moreau for not having gone “far enough along the path that Arnauld traces,” and thus having failed “to see how radical Arnauld’s conception of God really is. For everything points to Arnauld’s God being an ultimately arbitrary deity who does not act for reasons at all – indeed a deity who, in His being, transcends practical rationality altogether” (p. 533). In Nadler’s view, Arnauld follows Descartes in holding that God is absolutely simple and consequently that in God “will and understanding are one and the same thing,” not distinguishable even by a distinction of reason. For Arnauld (following Descartes),