occasionalism

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(Felsefe) Vesilecilik, aranedencilik: Bütün olayların tek gerçek nedeninin Tanrı olduğunu öne süren, insana neden gibi görünen bütün öbür şeylerin Tanrının istencini yansıtan birer araneden olduğunu savunan felsefe öğretisi.Descartes'ın ruh ve beden ikiliğini çıkış noktası olarak alan aranedencilik, bu tözler arasında ancak Tanrının aracılığıyla bağ kurulabildiğini söyler
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A metaphysical doctrine that holds that all events are occasioned (caused) by God himself
(Felsefe) The doctrine that God is the sole causal actor and that all events are merely occasions on which God brings about what are normally thought of as their effects
Espoused by Clauberg, de la Forge and Malebranche, occasionalism entails the contention that everything is devoid of causal efficacy and that God is the only truly causal agent So, for example, placing your hand on a hot stove is does not cause pain, but is rather an occasion for God to cause the mental state of pain So, not only mind/body interactions, but all causal interactions become the work of God
The system of occasional causes; a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body
Type of mind-body dualism that maintains that apparent interactions between mental and physical events are in reality the result of God's constant causal action. Starting from Descartes's mind-body dualism, the occasionalists, whose most prominent exponents were Nicolas de Malebranche and Arnold Geulincx, drew the conclusions that there can be no interaction between mind and body, and that all causality is immanent, within one order or the other, and any appearance of mind affecting body or of body affecting mind must be explained as the result of a special intervention by God, who, on the occasion of changes in one substance, produces corresponding changes in the other
A variant of parallelism according to which an act of willing your body to do something is the occasion for God to cause your body to do it
A view popularized by Nicholas Malbranche whereby: (1) the mental and the material comprise two different kinds of substance; (2) neither has any direct causal effect on the other and; (3) all seeming interactions between the two are due to the continual intervention by God who brings about a change in one on the occasion of a change in the other See dualism, doctrine of preestablished harmony, parallelism <Discussion> <References> Pete Mandik
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