PHILOSOPHER

Nicolas Malebranche

1638 - 1715

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Nicolas Malebranche ( mal-BRONSH; French: [nikɔla malbʁɑ̃ʃ]; 6 August 1638 – 13 October 1715) was a French Oratorian Catholic priest and rationalist philosopher. In his works, he sought to synthesise the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, in order to demonstrate the active role of God in every aspect of the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolas Malebranche has received more than 444,450 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Nicolas Malebranche is the 188th most popular philosopher (up from 192nd in 2019), the 419th most popular biography from France (down from 418th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Philosopher.

Nicolas Malebranche was a French philosopher who is most famous for his theory of occasionalism.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Nicolas Malebranche ranks 188 out of 1,267Before him are Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Marquis de Condorcet, Apollonius of Tyana, Moses Mendelssohn, Bernard Bolzano, and Ibn Tufail. After him are Jakob Böhme, Emmanuel Levinas, Pierre Gassendi, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Baltasar Gracián, and Slavoj Žižek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1638, Nicolas Malebranche ranks 4Before him are Louis XIV of France, Maria Theresa of Spain, and Shunzhi Emperor. After him are Nicolas Steno, Catherine of Braganza, Emperor Go-Sai, Meindert Hobbema, Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons, Elisabetta Sirani, James Gregory, and Christoph Cellarius. Among people deceased in 1715, Nicolas Malebranche ranks 2Before him is Louis XIV of France. After him are Gülnuş Sultan, François Fénelon, Dom Pérignon, Antoine Galland, Marie Mancini, William Dampier, Thomas Savery, Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Pu Songling, and Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicolas Malebranche ranks 419 out of 6,770Before him are Jean Fouquet (1420), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Lucien Bonaparte (1775), Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699), Alexis Carrel (1873), and Pytheas (-380). After him are Napoléon, Prince Imperial (1856), Fernand Léger (1881), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Marc Bloch (1886), Pauline Bonaparte (1780), and Pierre Gassendi (1592).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Nicolas Malebranche ranks 23Before him are Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Ernest Renan (1823), Pierre Bayle (1647), Paul Ricœur (1913), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), and Marquis de Condorcet (1743). After him are Pierre Gassendi (1592), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), and Gabriel Marcel (1889).