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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.
These substantial selections from The Search after Truth ,
Elucidations of the Search after Truth , Dialogues on Metaphysics ,
and Treatise on Nature and Grace , provide the student of modern
philosophy with both a broad view of Malebranche's philosophical
system and a detailed picture of his most important doctrines.
Malebranche's occasionalism, his theory of knowledge and the
'vision in God', and his writings on theodicy and freedom are
solidly represented.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ Tractatus De Inquisitione Veritatis, Volume 1; Tractatus De
Inquisitione Veritatis; Nicolas Malebranche Nicolas Malebranche De
Tournes, 1753
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
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++++ Tractatus De Inquisitione Veritatis Nicolas Malebranche Freres
De Tournes ((Ginebra)) apud Fratres De Tournes, 1753 Philosophy;
Epistemology; Philosophy / Epistemology
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the
pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the
pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the
pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.
These substantial selections from The Search after Truth ,
Elucidations of the Search after Truth , Dialogues on Metaphysics ,
and Treatise on Nature and Grace , provide the student of modern
philosophy with both a broad view of Malebranche's philosophical
system and a detailed picture of his most important doctrines.
Malebranche's occasionalism, his theory of knowledge and the
'vision in God', and his writings on theodicy and freedom are
solidly represented.
Reissue from the classic Muirhead Library of Philosophy series
(originally published between 1890s - 1970s).
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Treatise on Ethics (Hardcover)
Nicolas Malebranche; Volume editing by Craig Walton; Translated by Craig Walton
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R2,702
Discovery Miles 27 020
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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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