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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973244803321

Autore

Pyle Andrew

Titolo

Malebranche / / Andrew Pyle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

9781134440405

1134440405

9789023225706

9023225708

9781134440412

1134440413

9780203419700

0203419707

9780203417706

0203417704

9781280058066

1280058064

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Arguments of the philosophers

Classificazione

08.24

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Malebranche - Critique et interprétation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-285) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.