Output details
32 - Philosophy
University of Bristol
Chapter title
Malebranche über Wahrnehmung: Augustinische Lösungen für cartesische Probleme
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
De Gruyter
Book title
Sehen und Begreifen: Wahrnehmungstheorien in der frühen Neuzeit
ISBN of book
9783110189575
Year of publication
2008
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
Nicolas Malebranche is generally described as a second-generation disciple of Descartes. This is only a half truth. In this article, I discuss Malebranche’s reception and transformation of the Cartesian theory of ideas. The resulting account of ideas and of their role in perception owes a great deal to Augustine, and ultimately to Christian Platonism. After setting out Malebranche’s own theory of the Vision in God, I discuss some serious difficulties that beset it, and venture the further suggestion that these tensions can only be resolved by further transformations that would take the theory close to the Transcendental Idealism of Kant.
