The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche

by Edited by Steven Nadler

• ISBN13: 9780521627290
• ISBN10: 052162729X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-03
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The French philosopher and theologian Nicolas Malebranche was one of the most important thinkers of the early modern period. A bold and unorthodox thinker, he tried to synthesize the new philosophy of Descartes with religious Platonism. This is the first collection of essays to address Malebranche's thought comprehensively and systematically. 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.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	1	(7)
Steven Nadler
Malebranche and Method	8	(23)
Thomas M. Lennon
Malebranche on the Soul	31	(28)
Nicholas Jolley
Malebranche on Ideas and the Vision in God	59	(28)
Tad M. Schmaltz
The Malebranche-Arnauld Debate	87	(25)
Denis Moreau
Malebranche on Causation	112	(27)
Steven Nadler
Metaphysics and Philosophy	139	(26)
Jean-Christophe Bardout
Malebranche's Theodicy	165	(25)
Donald Rutherford
Malebranche on Human Freedom	190	(30)
Elmar J. Kremer
Malebranche's Moral Philosophy: Divine and Human Justice	220	(42)
Patrick Riley
The Critical Reception of Malebranche, from His Own Time to the End of the Eighteenth Century	262	(26)
Stuart Brown
Malebranche's Life and Legacy	288	(17)
Andre Robinet
Bibliography	305	(12)
Index	317