Remarks on the Structure of the Recherche de la Verité:

The Role of Vision in God

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https://doi.org/10.14393/REVEDFIL.v34n71a2020-54427

Palavras-chave:

Malebranche, Recherche de la Verité, Vision in God

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Remarks on the Structure of the Recherche de la Verité: The Role of Vision in God

Abstract: The present article will discuss the argumentative context in which Nicolas Malebranche presents the doctrine of the vision in God in his work, Recherche de la Verité. Malebranche is known for this doctrine about human cognition, and also for his occasionalistic view of causality, and such positions are only properly understood when put in the argumentative context designed by the author, which is not usually seen in commentaries. With this goal, we intend to look into the precise position of the vision of God in the Recherche and to identify the argument of the work as a whole. Thus, by seeing how the malebranchean theory of cognition fits in his philosophical project, we will be able to adequately reconstruct this important and influential philosophical doctrine of the seventeenth century.
Keywords: Nicolas Malebranche; Recherche de la Verité; Vision in God.

Considerações sobre a Estrutura da Recherche de la Verité: O Papel da Visão em Deus

Resumo: No seguinte artigo abordamos o contexto argumentativo em que se insere a doutrina da visão em Deus de Nicolas Malebranche na sua obra, Recherche de la Verité. Ainda que Malebranche seja conhecido tanto por essa doutrina acerca da cognição humana, quanto pela sua visão ocasionalista da estrutura causal, tais posições só são adequadamente compreendidas quando as colocamos no contexto argumentativo projetado pelo autor, o que costumeiramente não é feito. Com isso, pretendemos situar a posição da visão em Deus na Recherche partindo, em um primeiro momento, da análise do fio condutor da obra. Desse modo, ao vislumbrarmos de que modo uma teoria da cognição se encaixa no projeto filosófico malebranchista, seremos capazes de reconstruir adequadamente essa importante e influente doutrina filosófica do século XVII.
Palavras-chave: Nicolas Malebranche; Recherche de la Verité; Visão em Deus.

Remarques sur la Structure de la Recherche de la Verité: Le Rôle de la Vision em Dieu

Résumé: Dans l’article suivant, nous abordons le context argumentative dans lequel la doctrine de la vision en Dieu de Nicolas Malebranche est insérée dans la Recherche de la Verité. Bien que Malebranche soit connu à la fois pour cette doctrine de la cognition humaine et pour sa perspective ocasionelle de la structure causale, de tells positions ne sont correctement comprises que lorsque nous les plaçons dans le context argumentative conçu par l’auteur; ce qui n’est généralement pas fait. Avec cela, nous avons l’intention de situer la position de la vision en Dieu dans la Recherche comme fil conducteur de l’oeuvre. De cette façon, lorsque nous entrevoirons comment une théorie de la cognition s’intègre dans le projet philosophique malebranchiste, nous serons en conditions de reconstruire correctement cette important et influent doctrine philosophique du XVIIe siècle.
Mots-clés: Malebranche; Recherche de la Verité; Vision em Dieu.

Data de registro: 04/05/2020
Data de aceite: 26/08/2020

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Biografia do Autor

Pedro Falcão Pricladnitzky, Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM)

Doutor em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). E-mail: pricladnitzky@gmail.com. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5741-1746.

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2021-02-27

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FALCÃO PRICLADNITZKY, P. Remarks on the Structure of the Recherche de la Verité:: The Role of Vision in God. Educação e Filosofia, Uberlândia, v. 34, n. 71, p. 705–725, 2021. DOI: 10.14393/REVEDFIL.v34n71a2020-54427. Disponível em: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/EducacaoFilosofia/article/view/54427. Acesso em: 25 abr. 2024.