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I doubt not at all, but that God often gives to a man more than an Hundred good thoughts in one day.1
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Nicolas Malebranche, A Treatise of Nature and Grace trans. Richard Sault from the edition of 1684 (London: 1695), First Discourse, second part, art. 52, p. 53. Hereafter the English translation will be referred to as “Sault trans.”
TNG Dernière Eclaircissement, 1684, O.C. V, 197.
Sixth Discourse, in Philosophical Works of Descartes trans. Haldane and Ross, two volumes (Cambridge; 1931). I/119.
Traité de Morale introd. par Henri Joly (Paris: 1953), pp. ix-x. (Joly’s edition first published 1883).
mid. p. x.
René Descartes, The Passions of the Soul in The Philosophical Works of Descartes trans. Haldane and Ross (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 5955) vol. II, art. 148, pp. 98 ff. The passions are studied as the subject-matter for ethics. Chapter IV infra deals with Malebranche’s theory of emotion, and similarities with Descartes will be discussed there.
René Descartes, The Principles of Philosophy in ibid. vol. I, p. 23o. Part I, principle xxvii. The text translates the Latin version into English, and this French version is translated in note 2 of p. 230.
Ibid.
Cf.op. cit., Pensées nos. 283 and 286.
Nicolas Malebranche, De la Recherche de la Vérité, éd. Geneviève Rodis-Lewis (3 Tomes; Paris, 1962–64, O.C. I-III). First published in 1674–76. This work will be referred to as RdV.
Nicolas Malebranche, Ré f lexions sur la Prémotion Physique éd. André Robinet (Paris, 1958, O.C. XVI). First published in 1715. To be referred to as RPP.
Pierre Charron, De la Sagesse éd. Amaury Duval (Paris: Rapilly, 1827). First published in 1601. Cf. Bk. II, chs. I, 2, 3, 8; and Bk. III, chs. 5, 6, 7. In his preface to Bk. II, Charron plans to cover two problems antecedent to the discussion of duties, and those two are (1) how to disentangle the mind from “obstructions,” and (2) how to employ the freedom of the mind. The first is similar to Malebranche’s idea of “strength of mind,” the latter phrase is identical to Malebranche’s. Charron then turns to duties, breaking them into three areas — to God, others, and self. Malebranches uses the same approach, though it may have been traditional. Some terms in Charron are similar to Malebranche’s, but the meanings of those terms are not similar Cf. Charron’s observation in Bk. II, ch. 2 that our conduct must “conform to the customs of the world” with Chapter VII infra
Pierre Gassendi, Opera omnia 6 vols. (Lugduni: 1658). His ethics is Part 3 of the Syntagma Philosophicum and is found in vol. 6 of the Opera.
Simon Foucher, Critique de la Recherche de la Vérité. All references to Foucher’s Critique are drawn from that part of his text presented in columns by Malebranche, alongside his own “responses.” The “response” is printed as a preface to t. II in the second edition of the Recherche 1676. The text here employed is from O.C. II, PP. 480-499.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 488.
Ibid. p. 493.
Ibid. P. 495.
Ibid. p. 496. f.
Ibid., p. 499.
Cf. Appendix 1, infra.
TNG, O.C. V, p. 7.
TNG Sault trans., fir /sec. 7, p. 16. It is worth remembering that the 1684 edition of TNG was prepared by Malebranche, with many additions written in defense of his views, during 1683 — the same year in which he wrote the Traité de Morale. It was that 1684 edition which Richard Sault translated into English in 1695. For these reasons, the present study is based on works in many ways contemporaneous.
TNG Troisième éclaircissement, art. 26, Sault trans. p. zo8.
Ibid. p. 211.
The French is “intelligence,” meaning both “awareness” in the sense of “consciousness of,” and also knowledgeable about the content of that consciousness.
Malebranche here refers his reader to Augustine’s De libero arbitrio II. 2.
Lizzie Susan Stebbing, Modern Introduction to Logic Second Edit. (London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1933), p. 23o.
Ibid. p. 228.
Ibid. p. 229.
TNG Dernière Eclaircissement, O.C., V, p. 206.
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Walton, C. (1972). Malebranche as Philosopher. In: De la Recherche du Bien. Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6561-9_2
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