Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) was the most important French philosopher between Descartes and Rousseau. His Treatise on Nature and Grace, first published in 1680, is one of the most celebrated and controversial works of seventeenth-century philosophical theology. This major text, last translated into English in 1695, is here made available to a new generation of readers in an entirely new translation, with a substantial scholarly introduction. The central argument, that God governs the realms of nature and of grace by simple, constant, and uniform "general wills," not through "particular providence," had fundamental repercussions within the contemporary debates on the nature of divine grace and of salvation, contradicting the claims of the Calvinists and Jansenists that God wills the individual salvation of an elected few. Hailed as a work of genius by Bayle and Leibniz, the Treatise was to have a profound and far-reaching influence on the development of eighteenth-century thought.

Treatise on Nature and Grace

Politics & Social Sciences

Riley, Patrick

Malebranche, Nicolas

Philosophy

Clarendon Press

Traité De L'infini Créé: Avec L'explication De La Possibilite De La Transsubstantiation: Traité De La Confession & De La Communion (French Edition)

Science & Math

Mathematics

Wentworth Press

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Dialogues on Metaphysics: And on Religion (Muirhead Library of Philosophy)

Routledge

Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

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.

Cambridge University Press

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.

Religion & Spirituality

Malebranche is now recognized as a major figure in the history of philosophy, occupying a crucial place in the Rationalist tradition of Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. The Search after Truth is his first, longest and most important work; this volume also presents the Elucidations that accompanied its third edition, the result of comments that Malebranche solicited on the original work and an important repository of his theories of ideas and causation. Together, the two texts constitute the complete expression of his mature thought, and are written in his subtle, argumentative and thoroughly readable style.

Malebranche: The Search after Truth: With Elucidations of The Search after Truth (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

The Search after Truth: With Elucidations of The Search after Truth (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

Written seven years after publication of his Search after Truth, Malebranche's Treatise on Ethics develops a detailed, `experimental' science of ethics in two parts; the ethics of virtue and the ethics of duty. Part One distinguishes six sources of motivation: sense perceptions, passions, imagination, and `inner feelings' of love as-respect, as-goodwill and as-esteem. He examines how each is to be evaluated. This is interwoven with an Aristotelian analysis of act and habit, and voluntary vs. involuntary acts, and practical reasoning. This part concludes with two basic virtues; `the strength of the mind' and `freedom of the mind'. Part Two explores our duties to ourselves. to others, to our sovereign, and to God. The translator's introduction discusses the place of Malebranche's ethics within his larger system, his borrowings and innovations, and his impact on later philosophers. Craig Walton is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Ethics and Policy Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Treatise on Ethics (1684): translated and edited by Craig Walton (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées)

Springer

xxxii 861p grey cloth hardback fresh and tight, with gilt lettering to spine, from a Cambridge library with minimal markings, binding firm, text clean and bright, a very nice copy, includes Elucidations and Philosophical Commentary

The Search After Truth and Elucidations of the Search After Truth.

Ohio State Univ Pr

Malebranche: Philosophical Selections (Hackett Classics)

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.

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

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Treatise on Nature and Grace

Traité De L'infini Créé: Avec L'explication De La Possibilite De La Transsubstantiation: Traité De La Confession & De La Communion (French Edition)

Dialogues on Metaphysics: And on Religion (Muirhead Library of Philosophy)

Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

Malebranche: The Search after Truth: With Elucidations of The Search after Truth (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

The Search after Truth: With Elucidations of The Search after Truth (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

Treatise on Ethics (1684): translated and edited by Craig Walton (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées)

The Search After Truth and Elucidations of the Search After Truth.

Malebranche: Philosophical Selections (Hackett Classics)