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Nicolas Malebranche CO (/ m æ l ˈ b r ɒ n ʃ / mal-BRONSH, French: [nikɔla malbʁɑ̃ʃ]; 6 August 1638 – 13 October 1715) was a French Oratorian Catholic priest and rationalist philosopher. In his works, he sought to synthesize the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes , in order to demonstrate the active role of God in every aspect of ...
May 24, 2002 · The French Cartesian Nicolas Malebranche was hailed by his contemporary, Pierre Bayle, as “the premier philosopher of our age.” Over the course of his philosophical career, Malebranche published major works on metaphysics, theology, and ethics, as well as studies of optics, the laws of motion and the nature of color.
Nicolas Malebranche was a French Roman Catholic priest, theologian, and major philosopher of Cartesianism, the school of philosophy arising from the work of René Descartes. His philosophy sought to synthesize Cartesianism with the thought of St. Augustine and with Neoplatonism.
French Cartesian philosopher. Malebranche was born in Paris and educated in philosophy and theology at the Sorbonne. Deeply impressed by the philosophy of Descartes, he produced in 1674 and 1675 the two volumes of De la recherche de la vérité (‘On the Search for Truth’).
May 23, 2018 · A biography of Nicolas Malebranche, a French philosopher and priest who developed a rationalist-oriented speculative system based on Cartesian and Augustinian influences. Learn about his life, works, ideas, and legacy in the context of Louis XIV's reign and the Enlightenment.
Nov 10, 2003 · The seventeenth-century French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715) famously argued that ‘we see all things in God.’ This doctrine of ‘Vision in God’ is intended as an account both of sense perception of material things and of the purely intellectual cognition of mathematical objects and abstract truths.
Introduction. Part V of Nicolas Malebranche’s most famous work, the voluminous Search after Truth (1674–5) is devoted entirely to the passions, while other parts treat different kinds of affective states, such as the “inclinations”.
