Andrew Pyle

Malebranche

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Produktbeschreibung

Nicolas Malebranche is one of the most important philosophers of the 17th Century after Descartes. A pioneer of Rationalism, he was one of the first to champion and to further Cartesian ideas. Andrew Pyle places Malebranche's work in the context of Descartes and other philosophers, and also in its relation to ideas about faith and reason. He examines the entirety of Malebranche's writings, including the famous "The Search After Truth," which was admired and criticized by both Leibniz and Locke. Pyle presents an integrated account of Malebranche's central theses, occasionalism and 'vision in God', before exploring and assessing Malebranche's contribution to debates on physics and biology, and his views on the soul, self-knowledge, grace, and the freedom of the will. This penetrating and wide-ranging study will be of interest to not only philosophers, but also to historians of science and philosophy, theologians, and students of the Enlightenment or 17th Century thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780415289115
• ISBN-10: 0415289114
• Artikelnr.: 21264166

Autorenporträt

Andrew Pyle is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Atomism and its Critics and the editor of Key Philosophers in Conversation and the fomer editor of the journal Cogito.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Introduction 1. Life and Works 2. Descartes and Augustine 3.
Faith and Reason 4. Difficulties Chapter Two: Tensions in Cartesian
Metaphysics 1. Richard Watson's Downfall of Cartesianism 2. Descartes on
Ideas 3. Later Cartesians on Ideas 4. Descartes on Causation 5. Later
Cartesians on Causation Chapter Three: The Vision in God 1. The Argument
for Ideas 2. The Eliminative Argument for the Vision in God 3. The Argument
from Properties 4. Intelligible Extension 5. Efficacious Ideas 6. Nadler's
Malebranche Chapter Four: The Dispute with Arnauld 1. Arnauld's Vraies et
Fausses Idees 2. Malebranche's Defence of the Vision in God 3. What was at
stake? Arnauld's Version 4. What was at stake? Malebranche's Version 5.
Deeper Reasons for the Conflict. Chapter Five: Malebranche on Causation:
Occasionalism and Continuous Creation 1. How not to think of Occasionalism
2. The Idea of Necessary Connection 3. Particular Causal Relations 4.
Continuous Creation 5. Continuous Creation and Volontes Generales 6. The
Best of all Possible Worlds? 7. Objections and Replies Chapter 6:
Malebranche's Physics: The Laws of Motion 1. Malebranche's Cartesian
Inheritance 2. The Philosophical Foundations of Physics 3. First Revision
of Descartes: drop the 'Force of Rest' 4. Second Revision of Descartes:
drop the Scalar Conservation Principle 5. Third Revision of Descartes: drop
hard bodies 6. Is Malebranche an empiricist malgre lui? Chapter Seven:
Malebranche's Biology 1. Nature and Supernature Chapter Eight: The Downfall
of Malebranchism 1. Metaphysical Difficulties 2. Epistemological
Difficulties 3. Ethical Difficulties 4. Theological Difficulties 5.
Malebranche's Influence.