TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pyle,Andrew
TI  - Malebranche
T2  - Arguments of the philosophers
SN  - 0415289114
AV  - B1897 .P95 2003
U1  - 194 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Malebranche, Nicolas,
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-285) and index; 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 -- --; 1; Introduction --; 2; Tensions in Cartesian metaphysics --; 3; The Vision in God --; 4; The dispute with Arnauld over the nature of ideas --; 5; Occasionalism and continuous creation --; 6; Malebranche's modifications of Cartesian physics --; 7; Malebranche's biology --; 8; Malebranche on the soul and self-knowledge --; 9; Malebranche on freedom, grace and the will --; 10; The downfall of Malebranchism
N2  - "Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) was one of the most important philosophers of the seventeenth century after Descartes, and one of the ablest champions and most penetrating critics of Cartesian ideas." "Andrew Pyle examines the entirety of Malebranche's writings, including the famous Search After Truth, which was admired and criticised by both Leibniz and Locke. Pyle presents an integrated account of Malebranche's central theses, occasionalism and the 'Vision in God'. He goes on to explore and assess 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 philosophers and also to historians of science and philosophy, theologians, and students of the Enlightenment or seventeenth-century thought."--BOOK JACKET
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