Nicolas Malebranche

The Search after Truth (Illustrated) Nicolas Malebranche

Malebranche's Recherche focuses on the principal sources of human error and on the method for avoiding those errors and for finding the truth. Our edition focuses on the first four books which enumerate the various errors deriving from the senses, imagination, pure understanding, inclinations and passions. In Book 3, Pure Understanding, the rationalist philosopher defended the claim that the ideas through which we perceive objects exist in God. Malebranche's detractors managed to place the Search after Truth in the Catholic Church's Index of Prohibited Books.