Cartesian philosophy and Augustinian theology are combined in Nicolas Malebranche’s account of mind, causation and God. The Search After Truth examines error, perception, imagination and the mind’s relation to God, developing the claim that humans see all things in God rather than possessing self-sufficient ideas of their own. Malebranche is also associated with occasionalism, the view that created things are not true efficient causes and that God is the genuine cause of events. Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion present related arguments in a more conversational structure. His prose is systematic and theological, and modern readers usually benefit from editorial notes explaining the debates with Descartes, Arnauld and Leibniz. The clearest marketplace links are early modern philosophy, rationalism, philosophy of mind and metaphysics of causation. Read more Less
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