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Author : Nicolas Malebranche
Release : 1980
Genre : Knowledge, Theory of
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Book Synopsis The Search After Truth by : Nicolas Malebranche
Download or read book The Search After Truth written by Nicolas Malebranche. This book was released on 1980. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Nadler
Release : 2000-07-03
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche by : Steven Nadler
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche written by Steven Nadler. This book was released on 2000-07-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion contains specially commissioned essays addressing Malebranche's thought comprehensively and systematically.
Author : Nicolas Malebranche
Release : 1923
Genre : First philosophy
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Book Synopsis Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion by : Nicolas Malebranche
Download or read book Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion written by Nicolas Malebranche. This book was released on 1923. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicolas Malebranche
Release : 2012-12-06
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Treatise on Ethics (1684) by : Nicolas Malebranche
Download or read book Treatise on Ethics (1684) written by Nicolas Malebranche. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: explanation might be understood in relationship to our mental, moral, and spiritual life, leapt to his attention and was to occupy it from that day until his death. II. MALEBRANCHE'S THEORY OF BEING His fIrst work, The Search After Truth, appeared from 1674-76, some fourteen to sixteen years after his dramatic encounter with Descartes' work; to this day it is the only work unfailingly associated with his name, though it was the first of nine studies and several volumes of responses in which he went on to explore and develop his thought. Malebranche criticizes the prevailing theories of sense perception, imagination, memory and cognition, and fIrst proposes his own theory of how we acquire and evaluate ideas - from mathematical to physical, and moral to self-reflective. Underlying this theory is his rejection of Scholastic Aristotelian metaphysics, in which particular beings are said to have powers or forms that act on our minds to inform us. Malebranche - here in company with other critics . of that metaphysics from Montaigne to Bacon and Hobbes - argues that the prevailing view of beings endowed with powers by which they act unilaterally, as "causes" in the full sense of that word, makes no sense and cannot be confirmed by experience. For Malebranche, on the other hand, power can be predicated univocally only of God. Created beings have only that limited power given by God under the conditions of creation.
Author : Walter Ott
Release : 2017-04-28
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception by : Walter Ott
Download or read book Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception written by Walter Ott. This book was released on 2017-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth century witnesses the demise of two core doctrines in the theory of perception: naïve realism about color, sound, and other sensible qualities and the empirical theory, drawn from Alhacen and Roger Bacon, which underwrote it. This created a problem for seventeenth century philosophers: how is that we use qualities such as color, feel, and sound to locate objects in the world, even though these qualities are not real? Ejecting such sensible qualities from the mind-independent world at once makes for a cleaner ontology, since bodies can now be understood in purely geometrical terms, and spawns a variety of fascinating complications for the philosophy of perception. If sensible qualities are not part of the mind-independent world, just what are they, and what role, if any, do they play in our cognitive economy? We seemingly have to use color to visually experience objects. Do we do so by inferring size, shape, and motion from color? Or is it a purely automatic operation, accomplished by divine decree? This volume traces the debate over perceptual experience in early modern France, covering such figures as Antoine Arnauld, Robert Desgabets, and Pierre-Sylvain Régis alongside their better-known countrymen René Descartes and Nicolas Malebranche.
