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Treatise on Ethics (Hardcover)
Nicolas Malebranche; Volume editing by Craig Walton; Translated by Craig Walton
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Written seven years after publication of his "Search after Truth",
Malebranche's "Treatise on Ethics" develops a detailed,
"experimental" science of ethics in two parts - the ethics of
virtue and the ethics of duty. Part One distinguishes six sources
of motivation: sense perceptions, passions, imagination and "inner
feelings" of love as-respect, as-goodwill, and as-esteem. It
examines how each is to be evaluated. This is interwoven with an
Aristotelian analysis of act and habit, and voluntary vs
involuntary acts, and practical reasoning. This part concludes with
two basic virtues - "the strength of the mind" and "the freedom of
the mind". In part Two, Malebranche explores our duties to
ourselves, to others, to our sovereign and to God. The translator's
introduction discusses the place of Malebranche's ethics within his
larger system, his borrowings and innovations and his impact on
later philosophers.
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