MALEBRANCHE NICOLAS

ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΙΑΝΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΚΙΝΕΖΟΥ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΥ
(. . .) Στο Διάλογο χριστιανού και Κινέζου Φιλοσόφου (1708), όπου έχουμε μια αντιπαράθεση της Εσπερίας με την Ανατολή, κατονομάζονται διεξοδικά οι ανατολικές θεολογικές απόψεις, ενώ στην ουσία πλήττεται ο σπινοζισμός. Κατά συνέπεια το βιβλίο διαβάζεται και ως θεολογική παρωδία υψηλού ύφους. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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(P/B) MALEBRANCHE: DIALOGUES ON METAPHYSICS AND ON RELIGION
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...
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(P/B) TREATISE ON ETHICS (1684)
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. Part One distinguishes six sources of motivation: sense perceptions, passions, imagination, and "inner feelings" of love as-respect, as-goodwill and as-esteem. He examines how each is to be evaluated. This is interwoven with an Aristotelian analysis of act and habit, and voluntary vs. involuntary acts, and, practical reasoning. Thi...
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(P/B) MALEBRANCHE: THE EARCH AFTER TRUTH - WITH ELUCIDATIONS