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Treatise on Nature and Grace
Nicolas (Translated With An Introduction And Notes By Patrick Riley) Malebranche
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Description for Treatise on Nature and Grace
hardcover. A scholarly edition of Nicolas Malebranche's Treatise on Nature and Grace by Patrick Riley. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus. Translator(s): Riley, Patrick (Oakeshott Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, USA). Num Pages: 244 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPQ; HRAB; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Treatise on Nature and Grace by Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715), first published in 1680, is one of the most celebrated and controversial works of seventeenth-century philosophical theology. This major text, last translated into English in 1695, is here made available to a new generation of readers in an entirely new translation, with a substantial scholarly introduction. The central argument, that God governs the realms of nature and of grace by simple, constant, and uniform `general wills', not through `particular providence', had fundamental repercussions within the contemporary debates on the nature of divine grace and of salvation, contradicting the claims of ... Read more
Treatise on Nature and Grace by Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715), first published in 1680, is one of the most celebrated and controversial works of seventeenth-century philosophical theology. This major text, last translated into English in 1695, is here made available to a new generation of readers in an entirely new translation, with a substantial scholarly introduction. The central argument, that God governs the realms of nature and of grace by simple, constant, and uniform `general wills', not through `particular providence', had fundamental repercussions within the contemporary debates on the nature of divine grace and of salvation, contradicting the claims of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198248323
SKU
KSG0034677
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for Treatise on Nature and Grace
'The translation reads well ... Riley's edition is ... the first edition to be readily available in English for the best part of 300 years.' Stuart Brown, The Open University, BJHP 1993 'This translation, the first since 1695, has successfully retained the graceful lucidity and force of the original ... it is both close and accurate, and the decisions on ... Read more