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Something wrong?A French priest who tried to prove that God does all the heavy lifting - including every time you move your arm. His answer to how mind meets body: it doesn't. God does it for you, each time, on occasion.
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Nicolas MalebrancheIn their own words 3
, I am not my own light unto myself.
I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities.
It is not within our power not to desire to be happy.
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About this person
Nicolas Malebranche was born on 6 August 1638 and became an Oratorian Catholic priest with a philosopher's itch. He spent his career trying to marry St. Augustine's theology with Descartes' rationalism, insisting that God wasn't a distant clockmaker but the active force behind every flicker of the world. His signature move: occasionalism, the idea that physical events don't cause each other - God steps in as the universal middleman for every single one. He also argued we see all truth directly in God's mind, a doctrine called vision in God, and leaned into ontologism, which rooted knowledge in the divine. He died on 13 October 1715, having built a system where nothing happens without God's finger on the lever.
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