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In his Christian and Metaphysical Meditations (1683) Malebranche develops a reflection in which the self discovers in its interiority that the interlocutor able to answer some of its questions is the divine Word. Through references to the Holy Scriptures and to Augustine, Malebranche constructs a me...

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Published: Firenze University Press 2023
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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-855972023-11-28T03:33:49Z Chapter Cartesian and Malebranchian Meditations Carbone, Raffaele Nicolas Malebranche René Descartes meditation Holy Scriptures Augustine bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy In his Christian and Metaphysical Meditations (1683) Malebranche develops a reflection in which the self discovers in its interiority that the interlocutor able to answer some of its questions is the divine Word. Through references to the Holy Scriptures and to Augustine, Malebranche constructs a meditative itinerary that differs from the one proposed by Descartes, as it moves from the lumière naturelle in the Cartesian sense to the lumière of the Word. In the light of these historical-theoretical data, we propose a reconstruction of the role played by interiority and meditation in certain texts by Malebranche, highlighting the moments in which he appropriated the Cartesian heritage and those in which he distanced himself from Descartes’ philosophical paradigm. 2023-11-27T17:12:31Z 2023-11-27T17:12:31Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20231127_9791221501698_7 9791221501698 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85597 eng Knowledge and its Histories application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 38462.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/979-12-215-0169-8.8 Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.08 10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.08 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9791221501698 1 25 Florence open access
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