Treatise on Nature and Grace

Zusatztext A most welcome piece of scholarship! and a timely reminder to the anglo-saxon world of the importance of this central! defining statement of malebranchisme in the history of modern philosphical and theological discourse ... the translation itself is engagingly limpid and precise! reflecting something of what Ginette Dreyfus called the "nudite" of the original. Klappentext A scholarly edition of Nicolas Malebranche's Treatise on Nature and Grace by Patrick Riley. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Nicolas Malebranche
• Assisted by: Patrick Riley (Translation), Patrick (Oakeshott Professor of Political Philosophy Riley (Translation), Riley Patrick (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.1992
• EAN: 9780198248323
• ISBN: 978-0-19-824832-3
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Philosophy, Theology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy