Nicolas Malebranche#Nicolas
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#Nicolas
Nicolas Malebranche · 1638–1715
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“He took Descartes' system to its strangest logical terminus — and his audit of causation ("show me the necessary connection") outlived his God and became modern philosophy's sharpest knife.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Created things cause nothing. God is the only true cause, re-creating the world at every instant — and when you perceive that world, you are seeing ideas in God himself.”
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