Treatise Concerning the Search after Truth (incl. Treatise of Nature and Grace)
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~550,000 words · 2,608 passages
Cite this work
- APANicolas Malebranche. (n.d.). Treatise Concerning the Search after Truth (incl. Treatise of Nature and Grace). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/nicolas-malebranche/treatise-concerning-the-search-after-truth-incl-treatise-of-nature-and-grace
- MLANicolas Malebranche. "Treatise Concerning the Search after Truth (incl. Treatise of Nature and Grace)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/nicolas-malebranche/treatise-concerning-the-search-after-truth-incl-treatise-of-nature-and-grace.
- ChicagoNicolas Malebranche. Treatise Concerning the Search after Truth (incl. Treatise of Nature and Grace). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/nicolas-malebranche/treatise-concerning-the-search-after-truth-incl-treatise-of-nature-and-grace.
What it is about
An examination of why we go wrong — the senses, the imagination, the passions, the inclinations — and, out of that, his own metaphysics: we see all things in God, and no body is ever the real cause of what happens to another.
Context and history
Published in 1674-75. This edition also carries the Treatise of Nature and Grace. Malebranche starts from Descartes and ends somewhere very different: occasionalism, in which what we call causes are only occasions for God to act. The consequence is radical, and it is what Arnauld and Leibniz argued with him about — if God does everything, what is left of us.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
Printed by W. Bowyer, for Thomas Benhet at the Half-Moon, and T. Leigh and I W. Midwinter at the Kofe and Crown, in St. Paul's Church-yard. 1700. J\ohm SiXt'Y THE TH E Mind of Man is, as it were, by its Nature fituated between its Creator and Corpo-. real Creatures -, nothing, according to * St. Aujiin, being above it but GO D, nor be- ^nihW eft neath it but Body. But as the great Elevation it obtains above all Material Beings, is potentiu's no hindrance to its uniting with them, and even to its Depending, after a fort, upon ailIa creatit-Piece of Matter -, fo, notwithftanding the infinite diftance between the Sovereign Being and thera,.qu*j. • "Humane Mind, the latter is immediately and moft intimately united with the former. This laft ^r'rado-1" Union exalts the Mind above all things 5 'tis this which gives it Life and Light, and all its Hap- nalis, nihil pinefs : And of this Union it is St. Aujiin fpeaks in very many Place
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