Malebranche: Philosophical Selections

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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. I. Introduction. II. Selections from The Search After Truth and Elucidations of The Search After Truth (translated by Thomas M. Lennon and Paul J. Olscamp). Theory of Knowledge. The Search After Truth. Understanding and Will. Mind and Body. Ideas, Knowledge and the Vision of God. Knowledge of the Existence of Bodies. Knowledge of the Soul. Occasionalism. III. Selections from Dialogues on Metaphysics (translated by Willis Doney). Dialogues 1-7. From Dialogue 8. From Dialogues 9 and 12. IV. Selections from Treatise on Nature and Grace (translated by Thomas Taylor, revised by Steven Nadler). Discourse I: Of the Necessity of the General Laws of Nature and Grace. From the First Elucidation: What is Meant by Acting by General and Particular Volitions. Discourse III: Of the Manner of Grace’s Acting in Us.