Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 143 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 456 g
Translation by Patrick Riley
Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 143 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 456 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-824832-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Treatise on Nature and Grace by Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715), first published in 1680, is one of the most celebrated and controversial works of seventeenth-century philosophical theology.
This major text, last translated into English in 1695, is here made available to a new generation of readers in an entirely new translation, with a substantial scholarly introduction. The central argument, that God governs the realms of nature and of grace by simple, constant, and uniform `general wills', not through `particular providence', had fundamental repercussions within the contemporary debates on the nature of divine grace and of salvation, contradicting the claims of the Calvinists and Jansenists that God wills the individual salvation of an elected few. Hailed as a work of genius by Bayle and Leibniz, the Treatise was to have a profound and far-reaching influence on the development of eighteenth-century thought through the theory of the just and justifiable `general will', which re-emerged in secular form in the work of Rousseau.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Theologie, Doktrine
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
Weitere Infos & Material
- Biographical Note
- A note on the text
- Biographical sketches
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Treatise on Nature and Grace: Excerpt of a letter
- 3: Notice
- 4: Discourse I
- 5: Discourse II
- 6: Discourse III
- 7: Illustration
- Select critical bibliography
- Index
