Nicolas Malebranche (1638 to 1715) was a French priest of the Oratory and one of the most original philosophers to follow René Descartes. Born in Paris, he was tutored at home because of frail health, studied theology at the Sorbonne, entered the Oratory in 1660 and was ordained a priest in 1664. He built a system that joins Cartesian dualism with the theology of Saint Augustine. Its two best known results are the doctrine that we see bodies through ideas in God and occasionalism, the conclusion that God is the only real cause. He also wrote on ethics, theodicy, optics and the laws of motion, and his contemporary Pierre Bayle called him the premier philosopher of our age.
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Malebranche was born in Paris on August 6, 1638
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Malebranche was born in Paris on August 6, 1638, one month prior to Louis XIV
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and died, also in Paris, on October 13, 1715
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He was ordained a priest on September 14, 1664.
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Malebranche was born in Paris on August 6, 1638
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Nicolas Malebranche was born in 1638 and died in 1715.
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Nicolas Malebranche (1638 - 1715) was a French philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Rationalism, Early Modern Philosophy, and Christian Philosophy.
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Nicolas Malebranche (1638 - 1715) was a French philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Rationalism, Early Modern Philosophy, and Christian Philosophy.
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Nicolas Malebranche (1638 - 1715) was a French philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Rationalism, Early Modern Philosophy, and Christian Philosophy.
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Nicolas Malebranche (1638 - 1715) was a French philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Rationalism, Early Modern Philosophy, and Christian Philosophy.
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Nicolas Malebranche (1638 - 1715) was a French philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Rationalism, Early Modern Philosophy, and Christian Philosophy.
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