 Another interpretive option is to emphasize that in Principles 1.40–41 Descartes is saying only that our experience of freedom and independence is in tension with divine pre-ordination (Cunning 2010, 138–42). There is a way in which our experience of freedom is perfectly consistent with divine pre-ordination, of course, if God has immutably decreed all of our mental life for all eternity and if our mental life includes some experiences and not others. But it might seem puzzling why we have an experience of freedom at all. Still, if Descartes allows that human freedom itself is consistent with divine pre-ordination, then he is not a libertarian but a compatibilist. 