Nicolas Malebranche

Thomas M. Lennon

The Search After Truth

This historical study of Pierre-Daniel Hueta (TM)s "Censura philosophiae cartesiana" (1689) and the controversy surrounding it, shows that there are good answers to the perennial standard criticisms of Descartesa (TM)s philosophy: the method of doubt, the cogito, proofs of Goda (TM)s existence, etc.

Descartes, Huet, and Skepticism

The Plain Truth

The debate in 17th-century France between the Quietists and their opponents raised the question whether we should be willing to sacrifice the salvation of our own souls for love of another. Descartes’s views on freewill were cited by both sides.

Quietism, Jansenism, and Cartesianism

Sacrifice and Self-interest in Seventeenth-Century France

Translated from the French by Thomas M. Lennon and Paul J. Olscamp ; Elucidations of the Search After Truth : Translated from the French by Thomas M. Lennon

Robert J. Stainton

In his Second Paralogism of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant described what he called the "Achilles of all dialectical inferences in the pure doctrine of the soul". This argument, which he took to be powerful yet fatally flawed, purports to establish the simplicity of the human mind, or soul, on the basis of the unity of consciousness. It is the aim of this volume to treat the major figures who have advanced the Achilles argument, or who have held views bearing on it.

Thomas M. Lennon

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