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	Nicolas Malebranche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nicolas Malebranche (August 6, 1638 – October 13, 1715) was a French philosopher of the Cartesian school.
		The youngest child of Nicolas Malebranche, secretary to King Louis XIII of France, and Catherine de Lauzon, sister of a viceroy of Canada, was born in Paris.
		Malebranche was from that hour consecrated to philosophy, and after ten years' study of the works of Descartes he produced the famous De la recherche de la vérité, followed at intervals by other works, both speculative and controversial.
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	Nicolas Malebranche
		Malebranche was one of many children born to his mother, Catherine de Lauzon, the sister of a Viceroy of Canada, and his father, also Nicolas Malebranche, a secretary to Louis XIII.
		Malebranche's early biographer, Father Yves André, reported that he was so “ecstatic” on reading this account that he experienced “such violent palpitations of the heart that he was obliged to leave his book at frequent intervals, and to interrupt his reading of it in order to breathe more easily” (André 1970, 11-12).
		Malebranche insisted that God's general will is operative not only in the order of nature, but also in the “order of grace.” However, he noted that the production of effects in the latter order also involves human action that is free in the strong sense of not being determined by anything external to the agent.
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	Nicolas Malebranche
		Nicolas Malebranche (August 6, 1638 - October 13, 1715), French philosopher of the Cartesian school, the youngest child of Nicolas Malebranche, secretary to Louis XIII, and Catherine de Lauzon[?], sister of a viceroy of Canada, was born at Paris on the 6th of August 1638.
		Deformed and constitutionally feeble, he received his elementary education from a tutor, and left home only when sufficiently advanced to enter upon a course of philosophy at the College de la Marche[?], and subsequently to study theology at the Sorbonne.
		Malebranche was from that hour consecrated to philosophy, and after ten years' study of the works of Descartes he produced the famous De la rechérche de la verité, followed at intervals by other works, both speculative and controversial.
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	Malebranche
		Malebranche agreed with Descartes that awareness of mental states is immediate and infallible, perception of bodies is indirect and fallible, and that knowledge of things comes from clear and distinct ideas grasped by reason, and not by sensation or imagination.
		Malebranche proceeds by considering a variety of hypotheses about the origin and nature of ideas, raising objections and eliminating competing hypotheses until his own -- that the ideas we immediately perceive are archetypes of objects in the mind of God.
		Malebranche rejects the Cartesian view that we have a clear and distinct idea of the nature or essence of the mind, Malebranche holds that neither the nature nor the modification of the mind are known by way of ideas.
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	NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE - LoveToKnow Article on NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		(1638-1715), French philosopher of the Cartesian school, the youngest child of Nicolas Malebranche, secretary to Louis XIII., and Catherine de Lauzon, sister of a viceroy of Canada, was born at Paris on the 6th of August 1638.
		Malebranche was from that hour consecrated to philosophy, and after ten years study of the works of Descartes he produced the famous De la rechcn-he de la verit, followed at intervals by other works, both speculative and controversial.
		He died on the i3th of October 1715; his end was said to have been hastened by a metaphysical argument into which he had been drawn in the course of an interview with Bishop Berkeley.
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	Malebranche's Theory of Ideas and Vision in God
		Malebranche was not alone in the seventeenth-century in endorsing representationalism; in fact, it is often thought that he inherited this position from Descartes.
		Malebranche's primary objection to other theories of cognition, then, is that they fail to satisfy these conditions and, in the case of Descartes' theory in particular, encourage the skeptic's claim that we lack knowledge.
		Malebranche, it would appear, is forced to abandon his substance-mode ontology: ‘I believe that intelligible extension is neither a substance nor a modification of substance, notwithstanding the axiom of the Philosophers [that everything is a either a substance or a mode]’ (OC 6:245).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/malebranche-ideas (14087 words)

	Malebranche Nicolas: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		To Malebranche, the eternal truths are contained in the divine intellect, and scientific knowledge is possible only because the soul is part of the divine intellect.
		Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715 -- Contributions in doctrine of the...the soul that emerges from the writings of Nicolas Malebranche 1638-1715.
		Malebranches philosophy is a highly original synthesis of...with Descartess dualism between mind and body, Malebranche developed a theory called occasionalism...
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	Malebranche (print-only)
		Malebranche was the youngest of a large number of children, but his life was much influenced by illness.
		Malebranche became professor of mathematics at the Congregation of the Oratory from 1674.
		Malebranche was to have a strong influence on many who visited Paris while he and his disciples exerted a strong influence there.
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	NYSL: Sharpe Collection - Nicolas Malebranche: Conversations Chretiennes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born in Paris in 1638, the same year as Louis XIV, Malebranche was the youngest son of Nicolas Malebranche, a secretary to Louis XIII.
		Malebranche was to influence Berkeley and a younger school of English thinkers.
		Malebranche spent the rest of his life embroiled in one of the most bitter intellectual debates of the seventeenth century with the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld.
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	The Philosophy of Nicolas de Malebranche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nicolas de Malebranche (picture) was born in Paris in 1638.
		In metaphysics, Malebranche proves the existence of God by having recourse to the customary ontological argument so dear to Augustinians and to Descartes, to whom our intuition of ideas existing in God and the sense of His presence in our souls are proofs of God's existence.
		Malebranche holds that moral evil is not an effect of a cause but rather the suspension of an effect.
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	The Galileo Project
		Yet, when Malebranche died he bequeathed his library, furniture, and some money to pay the rest of his board due.
		Malebranche was the mainspring for the spread and development of Cartesian mathematics.
		We are nearing the end of the age of patronage, and it appears that he operated without a patron for the most part.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nicolas Malebranche
		It is obvious that Malebranche's occasionalism not only makes our certainty of the external world depend upon God's revelation; it suggests the objection that there is no purpose in a material universe which is out of all contact with human thought and volition.
		And, if, as Malebranche maintains, the essence of mind consists only in thought, as the essence of matter consists only in extension, there is at least a suggestion of the Pantheism which he so vigorously repudiated.
		To this Malebranche answered that sin was due to an intermission of activity, therefore sin is nothing and though God does all He is not the author of sin.
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	Nicolas Malebranche Biography / Biography of Nicolas Malebranche Biography
		Born in Paris, Nicolas Malebranche was educated at the Collège de la Marche and at the Sorbonne.
		Malebranche stresses not only that these parallel attributes are mutually exclusive but also that both mind and matter, in themselves, have no power or activity.
		The secondary material on Malebranche includes Ralph W. Church, A Study in the Philosophy of Malebranche (1931); A. Luce, Berkeley and Malebranche: A Study in the Origins of Berkeley's Thought (1934); and Beatrice K. Rome, The Philosophy of Malebranche: A Study of His Integration of Faith, Reason and Experimental Observation (1963).
	www.bookrags.com /biography-nicolas-malebranche (671 words)

	Nicolas Malebranche
		Nicholas Malebranche was the most influential and original of the Cartesian philosophers.
		Deformed and sickly, Malebranche was born in Paris and from his childhood preferred solitude.
		Malebranche's other philosophical writings include Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion (1688), a work in fourteen dialogs which more informally covers much of the ground in his Search after Truth, and A Treatise of Morality (1683).
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	Reconciling Malebranche's occasionalist metaphysics and human freedom (Nicolas Malebranche)
		Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715), priest of the Oratory and philosophical disciple of Rend Descartes (1596-1650), attempted to unify theology's emphasis on the power of God with philosophy's focus on the autonomy of human reason.
		Malebranche's occasionalist metaphysics, within which only God exercises true causal power, extends Cartesian doctrines of mechanism, continuous creation and substance dualism to emphasize the total dependence of all of creation on God.
		Malebranche argues that only God possesses true casual power, because only the will and desires of an infinitely perfect being are necessarily linked to their effects.
	repository.upenn.edu /dissertations/AAI9976466 (355 words)

	Nicolas Malebranche
		French philosopher of the Cartesian school, the youngest child of Nicolas Malebranche, secretary to Louis XIII, and Catherine de Lauzon, sister of a viceroy of Canada, was born at Paris on the 6th of August 1638.
		Deformed and constitutionally feeble, he received his elementary education from a tutor, and left home only when sufficiently advanced to enter upon a course of philosophy at the Collège de la Marche, and subsequently to study theology at the Sorbonne.
		At last in 1664 he chanced to read René Descartes' Traité del l'Homme, which moved him so deeply that (it is said) he was repeatedly compelled by palpitations of the heart to lay aside his reading.
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	Siris: Dissertation Week
		Malebranche, however, has arguments requiring him to say that human beings were created in a rationally ideal condition.
		Malebranche uses this as an opportunity to appeal to the Christian doctrine of a Fall and original sin.
		Because Malebranche thinks reason in its teaching role is working to counteract the defect of original sin, any discussion of his epistemology needs to take into account the historical narrative that results: we begin as ideal reasoners, we fall into the defect of original sin, and reason begins to bring us out of this state.
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	Amazon.ca: Reviews for Malebranche: The Search after Truth : With Elucidations of The Search after Truth: Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Malebranche also gives other pithy advice, such as not taking every word ancient others say to be true just because it's highly respected on so on.
		Malebranche's importance as a philosopher has been rediscovered in the past 50 years.
		Of Malebranche's work, the Search is the most important, containing a nearly complete account of his philosophical and theological system.
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	UC Davis Philosophy 22 Lecture Notes: Malebranche
		Nicolas Malebranche, 1638-1715, was the most influential Cartesian of his day.
		Malebranche concludes, then, that the human mind is united with the mind of God and perceives the ideas reposing in that mind.
		Malebranche merely exploited this position by denying the doctrine of innate ideas, so that there remained no other alternative to his view.
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	Dissertation Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first chapter examines Malebranche's thesis that all ideas are in God; beginning with issues in the recent literature, I argue that Malebranche considers this claim to be part of a larger theory of objective reason.
		Malebranche argues that human beings must originally have been related to reason in an ideal way, but that this is no longer true.
		Malebranche’s reflections on this doctrine lead him to see human history as a narrative of reason’s activities: we begin as ideal reasoners, we fall into original sin, and reason begins to bring us out of this state.
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		In this passage Malebranche introduces his theory of occasional cause, also known as Occasionalism, in order to explain why the body and soul appear to interact even though they are not causally related to one another.
		The way of influence is that of the commonly accepted philosophy [such as Descartes’ view]; but as we cannot conceive either material particles or species or immaterial qualities which can pass from one of these substances into the other, we are obliged to reject this view.
		The way of continual assistance is that of the system of occasional causes [Malebranche’s view]; but I maintain that this is to bring in a deus ex machina to natural and everyday things, where reason says that God should intervene only in the way in which he concurs with other natural things.
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	The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche - Cambridge University Press
		The French philosopher and theologian Nicolas Malebranche was one of the most important thinkers of the early modern period.
		There are chapters devoted to Malebranche’s metaphysics, his doctrine of the soul, his epistemology, the celebrated debate with Arnauld, his philosophical method, his occasionalism and theory of causality, his philosophical theology, his account of freedom, his moral philosophy, and his intellectual legacy.
		Malebranche’s moral philosophy: divine and human justice Patrick Riley; 10.
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		Reprinted in Nicolas Malebranche (vol.11 of Essays on early modern philosophy) ed.
		“Malebranche, Huet and The Birth of Skepticism,” in The Return of Skepticism: From Hobbes and Descartes to Hume, ed.
		Craig Walton, De la Recherche du Bien: A study of Malebranche's Science of Ethics, in Journal of the History of Philosophy, April 1974, pp.
	www.uwo.ca /philosophy/faculty/lennon.htm (1999 words)

	Amazon.ca: Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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...
		And you should read about Malebranche's system, since it was held in very high regard during the Seventeenth Century, although it fell into disregard afterwards.
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		Malebranche denied that natural bodies can bring about effects.
		They focus on the inability of finite minds, such as ours, to bring about effects in the physical world but the point was about any natural object, whether physical or mental.
		Hume agreed with Malebranche that we do not understand how natural bodies cause effects.
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	Alibris: Nicolas Malebranche
		Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) was the most important French philosopher between Descartes and Rousseau.
		Father Malebranche, his treatise concerning the search after truth : the whole work complete.
		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.
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