Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part One)

On Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion (1688), dialogues 5-7.

We get clearer on M's rationalist epistemology and into his occasionalist theory of causality. Is M's theory as archaic as its theology makes it sound?

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