Early modern · 1638–1715
Who influenced Nicolas Malebranche?
Influences and legacy
Occasionalist who saw all things in God and made Descartes' system speak theology.
Nicolas Malebranche was influenced by René Descartes, and went on to influence David Hume. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Nicolas Malebranche?
Nicolas Malebranche was a French Oratorian priest and rationalist who tried to unite Augustine and Descartes to show God's active role in every part of the world. He is best known for the doctrines of vision in God, occasionalism and ontologism.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Nicolas Malebranche?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- René Descartes 1596–1650
Who did Nicolas Malebranche influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Nicolas Malebranche.
- David Hume 1711–1776
The line of teachers behind Nicolas Malebranche
The longest documented line of influence ending at Nicolas Malebranche runs 15 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Nicolas Malebranche
Indirect influences
- Through René Descartes: Augustine of Hippo, Anselm of Canterbury, Al-Ghazali, Thomas Aquinas, Michel de Montaigne
The second generation
- Through David Hume: Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Jeremy Bentham
Contemporaries of Nicolas Malebranche
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Nicolas Malebranche, with no direct line between them.
- John Locke 1632–1704
- Baruch Spinoza 1632–1677
- Anne Conway 1631–1679
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716
- Pierre Bayle 1647–1706
- Blaise Pascal 1623–1662
- Margaret Cavendish 1623–1673
Nicolas Malebranche by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 56
- Thinkers downstream
- 109
- Wikipedia languages
- 43 — #30 of 36 among early modern philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Nicolas Malebranche
- Who influenced Nicolas Malebranche?
- René Descartes.
- Who did Nicolas Malebranche influence?
- David Hume.
- When did Nicolas Malebranche live?
- 1638–1715. The map files Nicolas Malebranche under the early modern period.
- How rare is the Nicolas Malebranche card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Nicolas Malebranche in 43 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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