Sentence examples for In the recherche from inspiring English sources

Arnauld objected that this position involves a retraction of the claim in the Recherche that we perceive bodies by means of distinct ideas in God.

This appeal to the Augustinian theory of divine illumination provides the basis for an argument for the vision in God that bypasses the unusual enumeration in the Recherche.

Professor Descombes is especially careful to remind his readers that all the theorizing that occurs in the Recherche takes place within a novelistic context: theory is contained, enveloped within a narrative, and cannot extract itself from this embeddedness.

In the initial discussion of freedom in the Recherche, there is the suggestion that consent consists in our "determination" of our natural inclination toward the good in general (Malebranche 1958 84, 1 46).

In brief prefaces added to the second volume of the Recherche, Malebranche chastised both thinkers for failing to read the work they were discussing, noting in particular that he had explicitly argued in the Recherche that the ideas we perceive exist in God rather than in us.

He begins by saying, "In order that the state of the question be better understood, I thought that I ought to report a place in the Recherche de la vérité, Book 3, Part 2, Ch. 8, N. 2, because it will show both what led to the definition of matter as extension and our disposition regarding the mysteries that it seems cannot be reconciled with that definition".

The battle became increasingly bitter, and as a result of a campaign on the part of Arnauld and his supporters, Malebranche's Nature et grâce was put on the Catholic Index librorum prohibitorum (Index of Prohibited Books) in 1690 (the Recherche was added in 1709).

In 1693, Malebranche responded to the criticisms of the Recherche in the 1690 Systême de philosophie (System of Philosophy) of the French Cartesian Pierre-Sylvain Régis (1632 1707).

In his Systême de philosophie, Régis had challenged the claim in the preface to the Recherche that our mind is united to God in a manner that "raises the mind above all things" and is the source of "its life, its light, and its entire felicity" (Malebranche 1958 84, 1 9).

Implicitly, this would mean that Proust's "fervor" for Ruskin would emerge only within the Recherche, in his re-writing of his mentor, whereas criticism as such is condemned to remain "cold" and "furtive" in its rational, analytic mode.

In emphasizing the need for this sort of love of God, Malebranche was returning to his view in the preface to the Recherche that it is through a union with God that the mind "receives its life, its light, and its entire felicity".