Malebranche'o kosmologija ir antropologija
The Cosmology and Anthropology of Malebranche

Summary/Abstract: The 17th-century philosopher Nicolas Malebranche, influenced by Descartes and Augustine, elaborated his own original cosmology and anthropology. In order to separate himself from pantheism, he claimed that the World is contained by God but not vice versa, as pantheists maintain. According to Malebranche, the World is not an integral whole, for things are not mutually connected: they are connected with God alone. The majority of things in the World have no relations. Only in God does a concept correspond to its object; therefore, God is the cause of human knowledge. Later, similar theories were called panentheistic.

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