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Treatise on Ethics (1684)

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  • © 1993

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  1. Nicolas Malebranche
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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Translator’s Introduction

    1. Translator’s Introduction

      • Craig Walton
      Pages 1-41

  3. On Virtue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    2. Chapter One

      • Nicolas Malebranche
      Pages 45-52

    3. Chapter Two

      • Nicolas Malebranche
      Pages 53-59

    4. Chapter Three

      • Nicolas Malebranche
      Pages 60-68

    5. Chapter Four

      • Nicolas Malebranche
      Pages 69-74

    6. Chapter Five

      • Nicolas Malebranche
      Pages 75-82

    7. Chapter Six

      • Nicolas Malebranche
      Pages 83-90

    8. Chapter Seven

      • Nicolas Malebranche
      Pages 91-97

    9. Chapter Eight

      • Nicolas Malebranche
      Pages 98-107

    10. Chapter Nine

      • Nicolas Malebranche
      Pages 108-113

    11. Chapter Ten

      • Nicolas Malebranche
      Pages 114-119

    12. Chapter Eleven

      • Nicolas Malebranche
      Pages 120-126

    13. Chapter Twelve

      • Nicolas Malebranche
      Pages 127-134

    14. Chapter Thirteen

      • Nicolas Malebranche
      Pages 135-139

  4. On Duties

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Chapter One

      • Nicolas Malebranche
      Pages 143-144

    3. Chapter Two

      • Nicolas Malebranche
      Pages 145-151

    4. Chapter Three

      • Nicolas Malebranche
      Pages 152-156
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explanation might be understood in relationship to our mental, moral, and spiritual life, leapt to his attention and was to occupy it from that day until his death. II. MALEBRANCHE'S THEORY OF BEING His fIrst work, The Search After Truth, appeared from 1674-76, some fourteen to sixteen years after his dramatic encounter with Descartes' work; to this day it is the only work unfailingly associated with his name, though it was the first of nine studies and several volumes of responses in which he went on to explore and develop his thought. Malebranche criticizes the prevailing theories of sense perception, imagination, memory and cognition, and fIrst proposes his own theory of how we acquire and evaluate ideas - from mathematical to physical, and moral to self-reflective. Underlying this theory is his rejection of Scholastic Aristotelian metaphysics, in which particular beings are said to have powers or forms that act on our minds to inform us. Malebranche - here in company with other critics . of that metaphysics from Montaigne to Bacon and Hobbes - argues that the prevailing view of beings endowed with powers by which they act unilaterally, as "causes" in the full sense of that word, makes no sense and cannot be confirmed by experience. For Malebranche, on the other hand, power can be predicated univocally only of God. Created beings have only that limited power given by God under the conditions of creation.

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