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The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley, 2022
Among the philosophers influential to Berkeley, Malebranche is prominent. Berkeley’s many references to Malebranche in both his published and unpublished work well attest to this influence.
Sukjae Lee
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Among the philosophers influential to Berkeley, Malebranche is prominent. Berkeley’s many references to Malebranche in both his published and unpublished work well attest to this influence.
Sukjae Lee
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Causal Powers and Ontology in Descartes, Malebranche, and Leibniz
Powers, 2021This essay focuses on an intriguing cycle in early modern ontology—that is, in the early modern study of what exists. René Descartes helped to usher in a new era in ontology by putting pressure on the causal powers posited by his scholastic forbearers ...
Jeffrey K. McDonough
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Making Sense of Malebranche's Occasionalist Argument for Living Morally
History of Philosophy Quarterly, 2021In two places, Nicolas Malebranche makes a strange moral argument that he presents as an advantage of his occasionalist metaphysics. Because God is the only true cause, every choice of sin can only be given causality by God's power.
M. Taylor
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L’ambivalenza di Malebranche [Malebranche’s Ambivalence]
Studi lockiani. Ricerche sull’età moderna, 2021Malebranche by Mariangela Priarolo is the only general introduction to Malebranche available in the Italian secondary literature. The main contents of this recent monograph are here examined in terms of the intertwining between religion and philosophy that is characteristic of Malebranche’s thought.
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1998
Abstract Malebranche holds that the Cartesian doctrine of ideas not merely conflates logic and psychology, but it thereby opens the door to scepticism and to a voluntarist theory of the eternal truths, which Malebranche regards as both incoherent in itself and dangerous in ethics.
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Abstract Malebranche holds that the Cartesian doctrine of ideas not merely conflates logic and psychology, but it thereby opens the door to scepticism and to a voluntarist theory of the eternal truths, which Malebranche regards as both incoherent in itself and dangerous in ethics.
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Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1969
In recent years Malebranche’s philosophical star has begun to rise. From the nadir of being almost completely ignored, he has risen of late to the position of “failure.”1 Most interpreters have rejected Malebranche’s claim to being a philosopher because of one or both of the following “failures”: (1) that he constructed a semi-Cartesian ontology which ...
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In recent years Malebranche’s philosophical star has begun to rise. From the nadir of being almost completely ignored, he has risen of late to the position of “failure.”1 Most interpreters have rejected Malebranche’s claim to being a philosopher because of one or both of the following “failures”: (1) that he constructed a semi-Cartesian ontology which ...
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Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, 2020
Nicolas Malebranche (b. 1638–d. 1715) was a Parisian-born French philosopher and Oratorian. In 1660, Malebranche entered the Congregation of the Oratory—a Catholic order founded by Pierre Bérulle in 1611—and was ordained in 1664.
Eric Stencil
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Nicolas Malebranche (b. 1638–d. 1715) was a Parisian-born French philosopher and Oratorian. In 1660, Malebranche entered the Congregation of the Oratory—a Catholic order founded by Pierre Bérulle in 1611—and was ordained in 1664.
Eric Stencil
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Intellectual History Review
This article offers an analysis of the implicit conception of translation at work in Malebranche’s Entretien d’un philosophe chrétien, et d'un philosophe chinois (1708).
Andrew E. Benjamin
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This article offers an analysis of the implicit conception of translation at work in Malebranche’s Entretien d’un philosophe chrétien, et d'un philosophe chinois (1708).
Andrew E. Benjamin
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Malebranche’s Conflicting Moralities? Hume’s Objection, Quietism, and Motivation
Journal of the history of philosophy:Hume criticizes Malebranche for endorsing an “abstract theory of morals” founded on reason that leaves no role for sentiment. One response in the literature argues that although Malebranche started by endorsing the kind of “abstract” morality Hume ...
Tad M. Schmaltz
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Lamy, Malebranche, and the Force of Rest: Reply to Nadler
Journal of the history of philosophy:In a recent issue of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Steven Nadler draws attention to the neglected argument of François Lamy that Malebranche ’s doctrine of occasionalism conflicts with his own criticism of Descartes ’s appeal to a “force of ...
Tad M. Schmaltz
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