Philosophical Selections: From The Search After Truth, Translated by Thomas M. Lennon and Paul J. Olscamp ; from Elucidations of The Search After Truth, Translated by Thomas M. Lennon ; from Dialogues on Metaphysics, Translated by Willis Doney ; and from Treatise on Nature and Grace, Translated by Thomas Tylor, Revised by Steven NadlerHackett Publishing, 1992 M01 1 - 281 pages These substantial selections from The Search after Truth, Elucidations of the Search after Truth, Dialogues on Metaphysics, and Treatise on Nature and Grace, provide the student of modern philosophy with both a broad view of Malebranche's philosophical system and a detailed picture of his most important doctrines. Malebranche's occasionalism, his theory of knowledge and the 'vision in God', and his writings on theodicy and freedom are solidly represented. |
Contents
b Understanding and Will | 8 |
Ideas Knowledge and the Vision in | 27 |
e Knowledge of the Existence of Bodies | 77 |
f Knowledge of the Soul | 86 |
Occasionalism | 92 |
Dialogue 1 | 147 |
Dialogue 2 | 159 |
Dialogue 3 | 168 |
Dialogue 4 | 183 |
Dialogue 5 | 198 |
Dialogue 6 | 211 |
Dialogue 7 and from Dialogue 8 | 222 |
from Dialogues 9 and 12 | 243 |
Selections from Treatise on Nature and Grace 1680 | 257 |
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