Nature and Law in the Philosophy of Nicolas Malebranche
Pace, Bradley W.
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Description
Title
Nature and Law in the Philosophy of Nicolas Malebranche
Author(s)
Pace, Bradley W.
Issue Date
2006
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Maher, Patrick
Department of Study
Philosophy
Discipline
Philosophy
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Philosophy
Language
eng
Abstract
The 17th-century French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche was one of the leading proponents of occasionalism, the view that God is directly responsible for all change in the created world. For Malebranche, occasionalism is an appropriately Christian philosophy---that is, it takes seriously the Christian belief that we ought to worship God alone. But occasionalism is intimately tied to Malebranche's more general theory of nature. Unlike his Aristotelian and scholastic predecessors, he attacks the conception of an active and powerful nature, arguing that nature is nothing other than God's general volitions. This dissertation considers the connections between Malebranche's occasionalism and his philosophy of nature and argues that the latter is an important step in the development of the mechanical philosophy.
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