Nicolas Malebranche : freedom in an occasionalist world / Susan Peppers-Bates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peppers-Bates, Susan.

Series:

Continuum Studies in Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715.

Malebranche, Nicolas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) was one of the most notorious and pious of Rene Descartes' philosophical followers. A member of The Oratory, a Roman Catholic order founded in 1611 to increase devotion to the Church and St. Augustine, Malebranche brought together his Cartesianism and his Augustinianism in a rigorous theological-philosophical system.Malebranche's occasionalist metaphysics asserts that God alone possesses true causal power. He asserts that human understanding is totally passive and relies on God for both sensory and intellectual perceptions. Critics have wondered what exactly his

Contents:

Malebranche's metaphysics and the problem of human freedom

God, order, and general volitions

Arnauld and Malebranche on the power of the human intellect

The cognitive faculties and the divine ideas

Malebranche on free will and imminent causation.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-45306-8

1-4411-7605-5

OCLC:

601821110