Soul action

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Often appears with: the nature and attributes of God · providence and divine governance · malebranche on god’s power · creation from nothing · bayle on passive soul

Usually: argument (1) · exhortation (1) · skepticism (1)

Theodicy primary

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von · 1710-1711
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Leibniz supports Malebranche’s view that creation is not hard to accept given God’s power and knowledge, then critiques Bayle’s inference that the soul cannot act at all.

know it. Now God cannot know it, if he does not give it being: he can derive his knowledge only from himself. Nothing can act on him or enlighten him.' 399. M. Bayle, not content with saying that we are created continually, insists also on this other doctrine which he would fain derive thence: that our soul cannot act. This is the way he speaks on that matter (ch. 141, p. 765): 'He has too much acquaintance with Car…