Liaison des idées et variété des esprits : de Malebranche à l’empirisme des Lumières

Condillac’s indebtment to Locke is often stressed, especially regarding the association of ideas; yet, one should also recall the importance of Malebranche in the elaboration of Condillac’s philosophy. Nevertheless, the takeover of Malebranche by Condillac, once purified of psychophysical hypotheses...

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Main Author: André Charrak
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Published: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon 2014-06-01
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description Condillac’s indebtment to Locke is often stressed, especially regarding the association of ideas; yet, one should also recall the importance of Malebranche in the elaboration of Condillac’s philosophy. Nevertheless, the takeover of Malebranche by Condillac, once purified of psychophysical hypotheses on the soul/body union, has to find new tools in order to explain the phenomenon of the variety of spirits, wich Descartes and Malebranche could easily explain in the context of the union, in particular by a reference to the variety of bodies and of corporal events. The focus of this contribution is therefore the tension between the generality and the unity of the laws of associations of ideas on the one hand, the modalities of their particularization in different spirits on the other hand.
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Liaison des idées et variété des esprits : de Malebranche à l’empirisme des Lumières
Astérion
Malebranche
Locke
association of ideas
Condillac
soul/body union
title Liaison des idées et variété des esprits : de Malebranche à l’empirisme des Lumières
title_full Liaison des idées et variété des esprits : de Malebranche à l’empirisme des Lumières
title_fullStr Liaison des idées et variété des esprits : de Malebranche à l’empirisme des Lumières
title_full_unstemmed Liaison des idées et variété des esprits : de Malebranche à l’empirisme des Lumières
title_short Liaison des idées et variété des esprits : de Malebranche à l’empirisme des Lumières
title_sort liaison des idees et variete des esprits de malebranche a l empirisme des lumieres
topic Malebranche
Locke
association of ideas
Condillac
soul/body union
url https://journals.openedition.org/asterion/2511
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