Ep. 285: Nicolas Malebranche on Knowledge (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

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🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion (1688), ch. 1-4. We walk through M's rationalist (post-Descartes, pre-Leibniz) epistemology with its surprising implications for the metaphysics of causality and the role of God in nature.

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0:00.0	We're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who are at one point
0:11.8	said on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it.
0:14.9	Our question for episode 285 is, what can we know?
0:18.9	And we read Nicholas Mala-Brosches, dialogues on metaphysics and religion, dialogues 1-4
0:23.4	from 1688.
0:24.4	From more information, a link to the text, please visit partiallyexaminalive.com.
0:29.6	This is Mark Lenson-Maya broadcasting from my invisible room in Madison, Wisconsin.
0:33.9	This is Seth Pascon with all of the sufficient and necessary extension needed in Austin,
0:39.0	Texas.
0:40.0	It's hilarious.
0:41.0	He said that this is Wesol one, not a modification of extension in Cambridge Massachusetts.
0:48.2	I sense a theme.
0:50.3	I am a mental theme.
0:54.0	This is Dylan Casey, groping about in the dark for the Switch of Universal Region in order
0:59.5	to find the table of my nourishment in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:04.5	So a long anticipated episode, just because it was a name, a B-lister that we joked about,
1:11.4	but you know, he's, I don't know, a live-knit's quality intellect pretty close.
1:15.3	He's the forerunner of live-knits.
1:17.4	Live-knits quality.
1:18.4	No.
1:19.4	I didn't have in mind his mathematical achievements, but in terms of the philosophy, there's about
1:24.2	seven people in the history of the world that are live-knit's quality and then.
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