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Malebranche / Andrew Pyle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pyle, Andrew.
- Series:
- Arguments of the philosophers.
- Arguments of the philosophers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715.
- Malebranche, Nicolas.
- Malebranche--Critique et interprétation.
- Local Subjects:
- Malebranche--Critique et interprétation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Malebranche was a pioneer of Rationalism and one of the first to champion further Cartesian ideas. Pyle places Malebranche's work in the context of Descartes and other philosophers and also in its relation to ideas about faith and reason.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Abbreviations and editions; Preface; Introduction; Descartes and Augustine; Faith and reason; Difficulties; Tensions in Cartesian metaphysics; Descartes on ideas; Later Cartesian accounts of ideas; Descartes on causation; Later Cartesian accounts of causation; The Vision in God; The eliminative argument for the Vision in God; The argument from properties; Intelligible extension; Efficacious ideas; Nadler's Malebranche; The dispute with Arnauld over the nature of ideas; Arnauld's Vraies et Fausses Idees; Malebranche's Reponse
- What is at stake? Arnauld's version of the debateWhat is at stake? Malebranche's version of the debate; Deeper reasons; Occasionalism and continuous creation; The idea of necessary connection; Particular causal relations; Continuous creation; Continuous creation and volontes generales; Is this the best of all possible worlds?; Objections and replies; Malebranche's modifications of Cartesian physics; Malebranche's philosophical physics; Malebranche's first revision of
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781134440405
- 1134440405
- 9789023225706
- 9023225708
- 9781134440412
- 1134440413
- 9780203419700
- 0203419707
- 9780203417706
- 0203417704
- 9781280058066
- 1280058064
- OCLC:
- 475881443
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