Nicolas Malebranche's Books

A revised edition of the work which presents the most systematic exposition of Malebranche's philosophy.

explanation might be understood in relationship to our mental, moral, and spiritual life, leapt to his attention and was to occupy it from that day until his death. II. MALEBRANCHE'S THEORY OF BEING His fIrst work, The Search After Truth, appeared from 1674-76, some fourteen to sixteen years after his dramatic encounter with Descartes' work; to this day it is the only work unfailingly associated with his name, though it was the first of nine studies and several volumes of responses in which he went on to explore and develop his thought. Malebranche criticizes the prevailing theories of sense perception, imagination, memory and cognition, and fIrst proposes his own theory of how we acquire and evaluate ideas - from mathematical to physical, and moral to self-reflective. Underlying this theory is his rejection of Scholastic Aristotelian metaphysics, in which particular beings are said to have powers or forms that act on our minds to inform us. Malebranche - here in company with other critics . of that metaphysics from Montaigne to Bacon and Hobbes - argues that the prevailing view of beings endowed with powers by which they act unilaterally, as "causes" in the full sense of that word, makes no sense and cannot be confirmed by experience. For Malebranche, on the other hand, power can be predicated univocally only of God. Created beings have only that limited power given by God under the conditions of creation.

A revised edition of the work which presents the most systematic exposition of Malebranche's philosophy.

Distinguished translation of the major work by a figure of crucial importance to the Enlightenment.

Features the selections that provide the student of modern philosophy with both a view of Malebranche's philosophical system and a picture of his most important doctrines. This title presents Malebranche's occasionalism, his theory of knowledge and the 'vision in God', and his writings on theodicy and freedom.

Distinguished translation of the major work by a figure of crucial importance to the Enlightenment.

In this text, the most systematic exposition of Malebranche's philosophy, he presents clear and comprehensive statements of his two best-known contributions to metaphysics and epistemology, namely, the doctrines of occasionalism and vision in God. This edition presents a translation of the text that is clear, readable and more accurate than any of its predecessors, together with an introduction that analyzes Malebranche's central teachings and explains the importance of the Dialogues in the context of seventeenth-century philosophy.

This book details a philosophical approach to Freemasonry and a Freemasonic approach to philosophy. It provides a system of esoteric work, interdisciplinary education, philosophical reflection, and social and political thought, and a method of understanding the reality of the world and the reality of consciousness. The actual state of Freemasonry is overtaken by inherent old conceptions, but this book looks to take Freemasonry from where it is to where it has never been. Thus, it exposes the Ritual of the “Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry,” composed by the author, and it explains the ethos, the structure, and the substantive content of the Autonomous Order of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry, of which the author is the Founder and Grand Master. The book expresses a keen longing for unifying, all-embracing knowledge and for instituting a Freemasonic system that creates, unites, and supports polymaths for the sake of knowledge and a better world order. As such, it presents a creative synthesis between Western esotericism, philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, political theory, political economy, mathematics, physics, and biology.

Book's by Nicolas Malebranche

Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion

Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion

Treatise on Ethics (1684)

Treatise on Ethics (1684)

Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion

Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion

Malebranche: The Search After Truth

Malebranche: The Search After Truth

Philosophical Selections

Philosophical Selections

Philosophical Selections

Philosophical Selections

Malebranche: The Search After Truth

Malebranche: The Search After Truth

Treatise on Ethics (1684)

Treatise on Ethics (1684)

Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion

Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion

Freemasonic Enlightenment in the Context of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry

Freemasonic Enlightenment in the Context of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry

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