Geulincx, Arnold

Japanese: ゲーリンクス（英語表記）Geulincx， Arnold

Born January 31, 1624 in Antwerp
Died November 1669. A Dutch Cartesian philosopher known for his Leiden theory of contingency. He studied philosophy and theology at the University of Leuven, and later became a professor, but in 1658 he was accused of being a sympathizer of Jansenism and fled to Leiden. Although he was a faithful follower of Descartes, he was deeply interested in ethics and was influenced by Augustine, and his belief in an omnipotent, transcendent God became the source of his contingency philosophy. According to his theory, God is the sole cause of all things, and the author of my thoughts and physical movements is not me but God, and the body is the occasion for thought. He came to a deterministic view that all actions are at the will of God, but he recognized human freedom and avoided attributing sin and error to God, and considered volitional submission to God to be the only virtue. Main works: "Tractatus ethicus primus" (1665), "Ethica" (65), "Physica vera" (88), "Metaphysica vera" (91).

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[生]1624.1.31. アントワープ
[没]1669.11. ライデン
偶因論で知られるオランダのデカルト主義哲学者。ルーバン大学で哲学と神学を学び，のち教授となったが，1658年，ジャンセニズムの同調者という嫌疑をかけられて追われライデンに避難。忠実なデカルトの徒であったが，倫理学に深い関心をはらってアウグスチヌスの影響を受け，全能の超越的神への信仰が彼の偶因論哲学の源泉となった。それによると神は万象の唯一の原因であり，私の思惟や身体運動の作者は私ではなく神であり，肉体が思惟の機会因となるという。行為に関してはすべて神の意のままという決定論にいたるが，人間の自由を認めて罪と誤謬を神に帰することを避けるとともに，神への意志的従属を唯一の徳とした。主著"Tractatus ethicus primus" (1665) ，"Ethica" (65) ，"Physica vera" (88) ，"Metaphysica vera" (91) 。

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