Ep. 285: Nicolas Malebranche on Knowledge (Part One)

01/10/22 • 47 min

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On Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion (1688), ch. 1-4. We walk through M's rationalist (post-Descartes, pre-Leibniz) epistemology with its surprising implications for the metaphysics of causality and the role of God in nature.

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