Malebranche and Miracles
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- March 21, 2019
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Tiller, Michaela
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy
- Abstract
- Malebranche is an occasionalist philosopher, which is to say he believes that God is the only cause with all creations being passive. He is also a Catholic priest, and therefore committed to the truth of his faith. Malebranche therefore must account for what miracles are in a metaphysical system where their direct causation by the divine does not provide any special distinction. This paper locates Malebranche’s solution to the apparent difficulty in a division between cases where God acts according to laws of nature and those where intervention is necessary lest the laws of nature lead God to negate any divine attribute.
- Date of publication
- May 2016
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- Nelson, Alan Jean
- Leunissen, Mariska
- Roberts, John
- Degree
- Master of Arts
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
- Graduation year
- 2016
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