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12 Recherche 34 Recherche absolutely infinite according animal spirits Aristotle Arnauld attention attributes Augustine behold body Bouillier brain Cardinal de Bérulle Chapter clear ideas conceive created creatures Descartes desire Discourse on Method divine doctrine ence enlightens Entretiens epistemology error essence essentially eternal Order ethics existence faith false feel finite Force of Mind gible idea of extension imagination immutable inclinations infinite number infinitely perfect infinity Jansenist Joly judgment knowledge Kuno Fischer laws Leibniz Liberty of Mind light Maine de Biran Male Malebranche's system matter métaphysique modifications nature necessary Nicolas Malebranche Novaro objects occasional cause Ollé-Laprune Ontological Argument Oratory pantheism passions perceive perceptions philosophie de Malebranche Plato possible principle Proposition psychology pure reason regard relations of perfection represent rule says Malebranche sense sion soul species Spinoza substance theory things thought tion Traité de Morale true truth understanding virtue wisdom
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الصفحة 92 - The intellectual love of the mind towards God is the very love with which He loves Himself, not in so far as He is infinite, but in so far as He can be...
الصفحة 46 - It is evident that the things I perceive are my own ideas, and that no idea can exist, unless it be in a mind. Nor is it less plain that these ideas or things by me perceived, either themselves or their archetypes exist independently of my mind, since I know myself not to be their author, it being out of my power to determine at pleasure, what particular ideas I shall be affected with upon opening my eyes or ears. They must therefore exist in some other mind, whose will it is they should be exhibited...
الصفحة 52 - We shall comply with it exactly if we reduce involved and obscure propositions step by step to those that are simpler, and then by starting with the intuitive apprehension of all those that are absolutely simple, attempt to ascend to the knowledge of all others by precisely similar steps
الصفحة 46 - ... real things. From all which I conclude, there is a mind which affects me every moment with all the sensible impressions I perceive. And, from the variety, order, and manner of these, I conclude the author of them to be wise, powerful, and good, beyond comprehension. Mark it well; I do not say, I see things by perceiving that which represents them in the intelligible substance of God. This I do not understand; but I say, the things by me perceived are known by the understanding, and produced by...
الصفحة 52 - If we wish our science to be complete, those matters which promote the end -we have in view must one and all be scrutinized by a movement of thought which is continuous and nowhere interrupted; they must also be included in an enumeration which is both adequate and methodical.
الصفحة 15 - Whence, then, spring my errors? They arise from this cause alone, that I do not restrain the will, which is of much wider range than the understanding, within the same limits, but extend it even to things I do not understand...
الصفحة 72 - This opinion is certainly very curious, and well worth our attention ; but 'twill appear superfluous to examine it in this place, if we reflect a moment on our present purpose in taking notice of it. We have establish'd it as a principle, that as all ideas are deriv'd from impressions, or some precedent perceptions...
الصفحة 15 - Whence then come my errors ? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds, but extend it also to things which I do not understand, and as the...
الصفحة 63 - I clearly see that existence can no more be separated from the essence of God than can its having its three angles equal to two right angles be separated from the essence of a [rectilinear] triangle, or the idea of a mountain from the idea of a valley...
الصفحة 72 - ... tis impossible we can have any idea of power and efficacy, unless some instances can be produc'd, wherein this power is perceiv'd to exert itself. Now, as these instances can never be discover'd in body, the Cartesians, proceeding upon their principle of innate ideas, have had recourse to a supreme spirit or deity, whom they consider as the only active being in the universe, and as the immediate / cause of every alteration in matter.