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Dialogues on metaphysics and on religion / Nicolas Malebranche ; edited by Nicholas Jolley ; translated by David Scott.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Cambridge texts in the history of philosophyPublication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (xlii, 287 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511004508
  • 9780511004506
  • 9781139164092
  • 1139164090
Uniform titles:
  • Entretiens sur la m�etaphysique & sur la religion. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dialogues on metaphysics and on religion.DDC classification:
  • 110 20
LOC classification:
  • B1893.E63 E5 1997eb
Other classification:
  • 08.24
  • CF 6104
  • 5,1
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Further reading -- Notes on the text -- Dialogues on metaphysics and on religion 1-14 -- Index.
Summary: Malebranche's Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion is in many ways the best introduction to his thought, and provides the most systematic exposition of his philosophy as a whole. In it, 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; he also states his views on such central issues as self-knowledge, the existence of the external world and the problem of theodicy. His skilful handling of the dialogue form enables the reader to see how he responds to objections made to his earlier work The Search after Truth. This edition presents a translation of the text which is clear, readable and more accurate than any of its predecessors, together with an introduction that analyses Malebranche's central teachings and explains the importance of the Dialogues in the context of seventeenth-century philosophy.
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Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Further reading -- Notes on the text -- Dialogues on metaphysics and on religion 1-14 -- Index.

Malebranche's Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion is in many ways the best introduction to his thought, and provides the most systematic exposition of his philosophy as a whole. In it, 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; he also states his views on such central issues as self-knowledge, the existence of the external world and the problem of theodicy. His skilful handling of the dialogue form enables the reader to see how he responds to objections made to his earlier work The Search after Truth. This edition presents a translation of the text which is clear, readable and more accurate than any of its predecessors, together with an introduction that analyses Malebranche's central teachings and explains the importance of the Dialogues in the context of seventeenth-century philosophy.

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