TY - EJOUR A1 - Ferraro, Angela TI - Clarifying a vague idea - Being in general, from Malebranche to 18th century French materialists T2 - Libertinage et philosophie à l’époque classique (xvie-xviiie siècle) 2021, n° 18. ­L’usage de la métaphysique chez les matérialistes des xvie, xviie et xviiie siècles JO - Libertinage et philosophie à l’époque classique (xvie-xviiie siècle) (ISSN 2649-1826), 18, 2021 DO - 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12209-8.p.0233 SN - 2649-1826 SP - 233 EP - 250 AB - I focus on the concept of being in general in order to highlight an interesting aspect of the history of Malebranchism. After reconsidering the status of Malebranche’s thinking on this point, I set out to describe the emergence of two major interpretive options among his French readers in the first half of the 18th century. This aims to provide a better understanding of how classical metaphysics may have been subject to unexpected transformations rather than being rejected as an obsolete device. PY - 2021 DA - 2021/10/06 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris KW - Malebranche, Ontology, Scholastics, Nominalism, Cartesianism, Spinozism, Materialism, Clandestine literature, Meslier LA - fre UR - https://classiques-garnier.com/libertinage-et-philosophie-a-l-epoque-classique-xvie-xviiie-siecle-2021-n-18-l-usage-de-la-metaphysique-chez-les-materialistes-des-xvie-xviie-et-xviiie-siecles-clarifying-a-vague-idea.html Y2 - 2024/05/19 ER -