nicolas de malebranche

Thân thiện

A student reads a book about Nicolas de Malebranche in the library.

Definition

1. Proper noun:
   • A French philosopher: Nicolas de Malebranche was a 17th-century French philosopher known for his work in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of religion, particularly his synthesis of Cartesian and Augustinian ideas.

Usage Examples

• Proper noun:
  • The philosophy of Nicolas de Malebranche is central to understanding occasionalism.
  • We studied Nicolas de Malebranche's arguments concerning vision in God.

Advanced Usage

• "Malebranchean" (adj): Pertaining to or characteristic of the philosophy of Nicolas de Malebranche.
  • The debate featured a strong Malebranchean perspective on causation.

Variants and Related Words

• Occasionalism (n): The philosophical doctrine, prominently developed by Malebranche, that all causal efficacy belongs to God alone, and creatures are merely occasions for divine action.
• Vision in God (n): A key Malebranchean thesis that we see all things in God, who contains the ideas of all possible things.

Synonyms

• Philosopher: thinker, metaphysician (specific to his role).
• There are no direct synonyms for the proper name itself.

Related Phrases

• "à la Malebranche": In the manner or style of Malebranche's philosophy.
  • He interpreted the mind-body problem à la Malebranche.

Related Idioms

• No common idioms directly incorporate the name "Nicolas de Malebranche."

Học thuật

Noun

1. French philosopher (1638-1715)

Từ đồng nghĩa

• Malebranche
• Nicolas de Malebranche