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| Author(s): |
Sacha Zilber Kontic
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2020-02-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Tessa Moura Lacerda;
Marilena de Souza Chaui;
Érico Andrade Marques de Oliveira;
Paul Rateau
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| Advisor: | Tessa Moura Lacerda |
| Abstract | |
This thesis analyzes the notion of perception in Malebranche\'s philosophy in order to understand how it allows the oratorian to articulate the great oppositions of classical metaphysics (finite and infinite, necessity and contingency, universal and singular, etc.) in order to make them a constitutive element of the human experience. By this we mean to show that, while never abandoning the ideal of a strictly intelligible and rational knowledge founded on eternal and necessary truths, all perception necessarily involves some element of obscurity, contingency and temporality. We further consider that, throughout the development of his philosophy and the multiple precisions and revisions made in the successive editions of his works, Malebranche deepens and develops the consequences of this conception of perception to the point that, in the final phase of his philosophy, the metaphysical elements and the elements related to experience become virtually indistinguishable. The first part of this thesis, consisting of the first two chapters, reconstructs those that are, for Malebranche, the most fundamental elements of perception, that is, on the one hand, the spirit and its modifications and, on the other, the ideas that are seen in God. In it, we examine the core concepts of feeling and idea, as well as show the major transformations that characterized the development of the thesis of the Vision of Ideas in God. The second part of the thesis, consisting in the subsequent three chapters, analyzes the notion of perception in relation to the major metaphysical oppositions that constitute it. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/03661-3 - Metaphysics, experience and perception in Malebranche |
| Grantee: | Sacha Zilber Kontic |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |