Ce qu’atteint l’expérience du vouloir : Hume, Locke, Malebranche

Starting from an excerpt of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (section 7, part I), this article compares the conceptions that Hume, Locke and Malebranche uphold regarding the experience we have of the power of our will. It stresses how Hume reproduces some arguments directly taken from Maleb...

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Main Author: Sophie Bergont
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Language:fra
Published: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon 2016-06-01
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/asterion/2743
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spelling doaj-987c5807e777435c9f6640c1b7e746752020-11-24T23:05:48ZfraÉcole Normale Supérieure de LyonAstérion1762-61102016-06-011410.4000/asterion.2743Ce qu’atteint l’expérience du vouloir : Hume, Locke, MalebrancheSophie BergontStarting from an excerpt of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (section 7, part I), this article compares the conceptions that Hume, Locke and Malebranche uphold regarding the experience we have of the power of our will. It stresses how Hume reproduces some arguments directly taken from Malebranche’s occasionalism in order to criticize the Lockean thesis according to which our idea of power derives from our reflection on the causality of the will. It then argues that this textual evidence reveals the existence of a major divergence, within the confines of empiricism, regarding the extent of the experience we have of our will.http://journals.openedition.org/asterion/2743HumeLockeMalebranchewillempiricismreflection
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Ce qu’atteint l’expérience du vouloir : Hume, Locke, Malebranche
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Locke
Malebranche
will
empiricism
reflection
author_facet Sophie Bergont
author_sort Sophie Bergont
title Ce qu’atteint l’expérience du vouloir : Hume, Locke, Malebranche
title_short Ce qu’atteint l’expérience du vouloir : Hume, Locke, Malebranche
title_full Ce qu’atteint l’expérience du vouloir : Hume, Locke, Malebranche
title_fullStr Ce qu’atteint l’expérience du vouloir : Hume, Locke, Malebranche
title_full_unstemmed Ce qu’atteint l’expérience du vouloir : Hume, Locke, Malebranche
title_sort ce qu’atteint l’expérience du vouloir : hume, locke, malebranche
publisher École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
series Astérion
issn 1762-6110
publishDate 2016-06-01
description Starting from an excerpt of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (section 7, part I), this article compares the conceptions that Hume, Locke and Malebranche uphold regarding the experience we have of the power of our will. It stresses how Hume reproduces some arguments directly taken from Malebranche’s occasionalism in order to criticize the Lockean thesis according to which our idea of power derives from our reflection on the causality of the will. It then argues that this textual evidence reveals the existence of a major divergence, within the confines of empiricism, regarding the extent of the experience we have of our will.
topic Hume
Locke
Malebranche
will
empiricism
reflection
url http://journals.openedition.org/asterion/2743
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