Treatise Concerning the Search after Truth (incl. Treatise of Nature and Grace)
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~550.000 palabras · 2608 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APANicolás Malebranche. (n.d.). Treatise Concerning the Search after Truth (incl. Treatise of Nature and Grace). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/nicolas-malebranche/treatise-concerning-the-search-after-truth-incl-treatise-of-nature-and-grace
- MLANicolás Malebranche. Treatise Concerning the Search after Truth (incl. Treatise of Nature and Grace). Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/nicolas-malebranche/treatise-concerning-the-search-after-truth-incl-treatise-of-nature-and-grace.
- ChicagoNicolás Malebranche. Treatise Concerning the Search after Truth (incl. Treatise of Nature and Grace). Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/nicolas-malebranche/treatise-concerning-the-search-after-truth-incl-treatise-of-nature-and-grace.
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De qué trata
Un examen de por qué nos equivocamos —los sentidos, la imaginación, las pasiones, las inclinaciones— y, a partir de ahí, su propia metafísica: vemos todas las cosas en Dios, y ningún cuerpo es nunca la causa real de lo que le ocurre a otro.
Contexto e historia
Publicado en 1674-75. Esta edición incluye además el Tratado de la naturaleza y de la gracia. Malebranche parte de Descartes y acaba en un lugar muy distinto: el ocasionalismo, donde lo que llamamos causas son solo ocasiones para que Dios actúe. La consecuencia es radical y es lo que le discutieron Arnauld y Leibniz —si Dios lo hace todo, qué queda de nosotros.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
Some there are who fancy to themfelves they very well knoiv the Nature of the Mind. Many others are perfuaded, 'tis vnpojfible to know any thing of it. Laftly, the greateft Number of all lee not of what ufc that Knowledge could be, and therefore defpife it. But all thefe i'o common Opinions are rather the Effects of the Imagination and Inclination of Men, than the Confequences The PREFACE. quinces of a Gear and DiJiinffView of their Mind •, and proceed from their feeling an Uneafi-Deft and Regret to retire into themfelves, there to difcover their Weakneffes and Infirmities ; and their being pleased with Curious Enquiries and gayer fort of Sciences. Being always Abroad, they are inlenfible of the Diforders that happen at Home within themfelves. They think all's right, becaufe there's a Stupor on their Soul, and rind fault with thofe who knowing their Diftemperi betake to Remedies, faying, they make themfelves fick, becaufe they try for Cure. But thefe Great Genius, who pierce into the molt Myfierious Secret s of Nature, who lift themfelves in Opinion as high as Heaven, and defcend to the bottom of the Abyfs, ought to remember what they are. Thefe great Obje&s, it may be, do but dazle them. The Mind muft needs depart out of it felf, to compafs fo many things ; and this it can't do without fcattering its Force. Men came not into the World to be Aftronomers, or Chymifs, to fpend their whole Life at the end of a Tele/cope ; or labouring at a furnace, to deduce trilling Conferences from their painful Obfervations.…