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Pace, Bradley W. 2015-09-28T16:20:50Z 2015-09-28T16:20:50Z Maher, Patrick 10000-01-01 2006 2006 The 17th-century French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche was one of the leading proponents of occasionalism, the view that God is directly responsible for all change in the created world. For Malebranche, occasionalism is an appropriately Christian philosophy---that is, it takes seriously the Christian belief that we ought to worship God alone. But occasionalism is intimately tied to Malebranche's more general theory of nature. Unlike his Aristotelian and scholastic predecessors, he attacks the conception of an active and powerful nature, arguing that nature is nothing other than God's general volitions. This dissertation considers the connections between Malebranche's occasionalism and his philosophy of nature and argues that the latter is an important step in the development of the mechanical philosophy. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T16:20:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3242955.pdf: 8601341 bytes, checksum: 4d5ebd7c823090a27b8ab11b1448af27 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 88878 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 285 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/87597 (MiAaPQ)AAI3242955 eng Philosophy Nature and Law in the Philosophy of Nicolas Malebranche text Philosophy Philosophy University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.