Malebranche And Ideas

Author : Steven M. Nadler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 224 pages
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Release : 1992
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015028443045

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Malebranche and Ideas by Steven M. Nadler Pdf

Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) was one of the leading French followers of Descartes and was one of the most influential philosophers in the seventeenth century. His metaphysical, epistemological, and theological doctrines - in particular, his occasionalism and the vision in God - were a focus of debate challenged by Arnauld, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and others. Malebranche's synthesis of Augustinianism and an unorthodox Cartesianism undoubtedly stands as one of the grand systems of the period. In past work, Malebranche's account of the nature of ideas and their role in knowledge and perception has been greatly misunderstood by both his critics and commentators. In Malebranche and Ideas, Nadler offers a new interpretation of the role ideas play in Malebranche's theories of knowledge and perception. He argues that Malebranche's ideas should be seen as essences or logical concepts, and that our apprehension of them is thus of a purely intellectual character and serves to provide us with knowledge of eternal truths. He then shows that the visionary representationalist reading usually given) to Malebranche's theory of perception simply misconstrues the nature of ideas and the role he intended them to play in perception. Nadler's discussion includes detailed analyses of Malebranche's notion of representation and of his arguments for the presence of divine ideas in knowledge and perception. These aspects of Malebranche's system are considered both in the light of his Cartesian and Augustinian commitments and in the broader seventeenth-century philosophical context.

Author : Nicholas Jolley
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 220 pages
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Release : 1990-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191519734

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The Light of the Soul by Nicholas Jolley Pdf

The concept of an idea plays a central role in seventeenth-century theories of mind and knowledge. However, philosophers of the period were seriously divided over the nature of ideas. The Light of the Soul examines the important but neglected debate on this issue between Leibniz, Malebranche, and Descartes. In reaction to Descartes, Malebranche argues that ideas are not mental but abstract, logical entities. Leibniz in turn replies to Malebranche by reclaiming ideas for psychology. Nicholas Jolley explores the theological dimension of the debate by showing how the three philosophers make use of biblical and patristic teaching. The debate has important implications for such major issues in early modern philosophy as innate ideas, self-knowledge, scepticism, the mind-body problem, and the creation of the eternal truths. Jolley goes on to consider the relevance of the seventeenth-century controversy to modern discussions of the relation between logic and psychology. 'This is an excellent book about a variety of themes in seventeenth-century philosophy . . . an engaging and stimulating tour of a series of fascinating philosophical debates which constitute central dimensions of the seventeenth-century philosophical tradition. . . . Jolley has a fine philosophical sense, an excellent knowledge of the texts, and a rich appreciation of the secondary literature.' Michael L. Morgan, Review of Metaphysics 'Jolley has written a rich and useful book.Its concerns are important and he presents them in a remarkably accessible fashion. . . . Very seldom does a book like this appear that will be of serious interest both to the most advanced, sophisticated researchers in the field and to those with only passing knowledge of the basic texts ... It is an engaging book, in both senses of the term. Its style and method of argument are not only prepossessing, but they also draw one into the dialectic, and in a philosophically productive way.' Thomas M. Lennon, Canadian Philosophical Reviews 'careful and perceptive . . . lucid and wide-ranging' John Cottingham, Times Literary Supplement 'A significant study of a central topic in modern philosophy . . . Without losing sight of his central theme, Jolley manages to illuminate a host of related topics in epistemology and the philosophy of mind, and succeeds quite admirably in offering a philosophically stimulating, historically rich discussion of the nature of ideas. Consequently, this book should be purchased by every academic library supporting undergraduate degree programs in philosophy.' C. J. Shields, Choice

Author : Nicolas Malebranche
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 319 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401124805

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Treatise on Ethics (1684) by Nicolas Malebranche Pdf

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.

Author : Daisie Radner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015008713706

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Malebranche by Daisie Radner Pdf

Author : Steven Nadler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052162729X

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The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche by Steven Nadler Pdf

This Companion contains specially commissioned essays addressing Malebranche's thought comprehensively and systematically.

Author : Malebranche, Nicolas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317852070

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Dialogues on Metaphysics by Malebranche, Nicolas Pdf

First published in 2002. This is Volume XI of seventeen in the Library of Philosophy series on Metaphysics. Written in 1923, this study of Malebranche’s philosophical system, translated from ‘Entretiens sur la Metaphysique’, dialogues on metaphysics and religion.

Author : Nicolas Malebranche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015029167304

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Treatise on Nature and Grace by Nicolas Malebranche Pdf

A scholarly edition of Nicolas Malebranche's Treatise on Nature and Grace by Patrick Riley. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Author : Ralph W. Church
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000486094

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A Study in the Philosophy of Malebranche by Ralph W. Church Pdf

First published in 1931, A Study in the Philosophy of Malebranche examines the theories which constitute the philosophical system of Malebranche. From the entire gamut of Malebranche’s works, Church specifically culls out and analyses theories pertaining to Malebranche’s vision in god; knowledge; occasionalism; and imagination and sense. These theories are embedded within Malebranche’s lifelong engagement with the works of Descartes and to some extent, St. Augustine. A philosopher often overlooked, A Study in the Philosophy of Malebranche has enduring relevance for students of philosophy and theology.

Author : Steven M. Nadler
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Idea (Philosophy)
ISBN : 0719025095

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Arnauld and the Cartesian Philosophy of Ideas by Steven M. Nadler Pdf

Author : William Curtis Swabey
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1376386143

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The Philosophy of Malebranche by William Curtis Swabey Pdf

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Author : Andrew Pyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1135002185

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Malebranche by Andrew Pyle Pdf

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.

Author : Nicholas Jolley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198238193

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The Light of the Soul by Nicholas Jolley Pdf

The concept of an idea plays a central role in seventeenth-century theories of mind and knowledge. However, philosophers of the period were seriously divided over the nature of ideas. The Light of the Soul examines the important but neglected debate on this issue between Leibniz, Malebranche,and Descartes. In reaction to Descartes, Malebranche argues that ideas are not mental but abstract, logical entities. Leibniz in turn replies to Malebranche by reclaiming ideas for psychology. Nicholas Jolley explores the theological dimension of the debate by showing how the three philosophersmake use of biblical and patristic teaching. The debate has important implications for such major issues in early modern philosophy as innate ideas, self-knowledge, scepticism, the mind-body problem, and the creation of the eternal truths. Jolley goes on to consider the relevance of theseventeenth-century controversy to modern discussions of the relation between logic and psychology.'This is an excellent book about a variety of themes in seventeenth-century philosophy . . . an engaging and stimulating tour of a series of fascinating philosophical debates which constitute central dimensions of the seventeenth-century philosophical tradition. . . . Jolley has a finephilosophical sense, an excellent knowledge of the texts, and a rich appreciation of the secondary literature.' Michael L. Morgan, Review of Metaphysics'Jolley has written a rich and useful book.Its concerns are important and he presents them in a remarkably accessible fashion. . . . Very seldom does a book like this appear that will be of serious interest both to the most advanced, sophisticated researchers in the field and to those with onlypassing knowledge of the basic texts ... It is an engaging book, in both senses of the term. Its style and method of argument are not only prepossessing, but they also draw one into the dialectic, and in a philosophically productive way.' Thomas M. Lennon, Canadian Philosophical Reviews'careful and perceptive . . . lucid and wide-ranging' John Cottingham, Times Literary Supplement'A significant study of a central topic in modern philosophy . . . Without losing sight of his central theme, Jolley manages to illuminate a host of related topics in epistemology and the philosophy of mind, and succeeds quite admirably in offering a philosophically stimulating, historically richdiscussion of the nature of ideas. Consequently, this book should be purchased by every academic library supporting undergraduate degree programs in philosophy.' C. J. Shields, Choice

Author : Marc A. Hight
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271047652

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Idea and Ontology by Marc A. Hight Pdf

"A wide-ranging study of the 'way of ideas' and its metaphysics, culminating in a bold reinterpretation of Berkeley."

Author : Tad M. Schmaltz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy of mind
ISBN : 9780195103441

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Malebranche's Theory of the Soul by Tad M. Schmaltz Pdf

This book considers in the broader context of early modern Cartesianism Malebranche's claim that consciousness of the soul yields knowledge of a nature that is radically inferior in kind to the knowledge that Cartesians have of the nature of the body.

Author : Antoine Arnauld
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cognition
ISBN : 0719032032

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On True and False Ideas by Antoine Arnauld Pdf

This is an English translation of Arnauld's philosophical reply to Malebranche's Search After Truth. It forms the core of one of the most important philosophical controversies of the 17th century, and one which was to have an impact on 18th-century philosophy, especially in Britain. The translation is accompanied by an introductory essay which looks at the history of the problem of perceptual cognition up until the dispute between Arnauld and Malebranche. The subsequent exchanges between the two are discussed in an appendix.