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Théodicée title page from a 1734 version. Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal (from French: Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil), more simply known as Théodicée [te.ɔ.di.se], is a book of philosophy by the German polymath Gottfried Leibniz.
French philosophy, here taken to mean philosophy in the French language, has been extremely diverse and has influenced Western philosophy as a whole for centuries, from the medieval scholasticism of Peter Abelard, through the founding of modern philosophy by René Descartes, to 20th century philosophy of science, existentialism, phenomenology, structuralism, and postmodernism.
Jean-Luc Marion (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lyk maʁjɔ̃]; born 3 July 1946) is a French philosopher and Catholic theologian. A former student of Jacques Derrida, his work is informed by patristic and mystical theology, phenomenology, and modern philosophy.
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá stated to a French Baháʼí woman: …it is possible that one thing in relation to another may be evil, and at the same time within the limits of its proper being it may not be evil. Then it is proved that there is no evil in existence; all that God created He created good. This evil is nothingness; so death is the absence of life.
Jansenism was a 17th- and 18th-century theological movement within Roman Catholicism, primarily active in France, which arose as an attempt to reconcile the theological concepts of free will and divine grace in response to certain developments in the Catholic Church, but later developing political and philosophical aspects in opposition to royal absolutism.
The Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers presents, in alphabetical order, the work of 582 authors of philosophical texts between 1601 and 1700. . Understanding the seventeenth-century use of the term ‘philosophy’ in its broadest sense, this dictionary is an encyclopaedia of Early Modern thought encompassing intellectual traditions from scholastic philosophy to literature ...
Bergsonian Philosophy (1955) Reflections on America (1958) St. Thomas Aquinas (1958) The Degrees of Knowledge (1959) The Sin of the Angel: An Essay on a Re-interpretation of some Thomistic Positions (1959) Liturgy and Contemplation (1960) The Responsibility of the Artist (1960) On the Use of Philosophy (1961) God and the Permission of Evil (1966)
Nicolas Malebranche CO (/ m æ l ˈ b r ɒ n ʃ / mal-BRONSH; French: [nikɔla malbʁɑ̃ʃ]; [1] 6 August 1638 – 13 October 1715) was a French Oratorian [2] 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 ...