" For 10 points, name this 17th century French philosopher best known for his development of occasionalism.
Berkeley claimed that no person's ideas were more fundamentally opposed to his than the ones of this person, and John Norris was the leading exponent of this thinker's doctrines in England. His biographer Father Andre notes that this philosopher's life-changing encounter with Descartes' Treatise on Man caused heart-palipating joy. This thinker argues that the cosmological order dictates that the beast is more perfect than the rock and the human more perfect than both, in a doctrine this thinker calls "the relations of perfection," in his Treatise on Morality. His regular and contentious correspondences with Arnauld and Regis prompted him to systematize his arguments in such works as Dialogues in Metaphysics and The Treatise on Nature and Grace. He extended Augustine's theory of illumination into a full theory of cognition, which includes a theo-ontologically grounded theory of sensory perceptions in ?Elucidations of The Search After Truth; a doctrine known as "Vision in God." For 10 points, name this 17th century French philosopher best known for his development of occasionalism.
Berkeley claimed that no person's ideas were more fundamentally opposed to his than the ones of this person, and John Norris was the leading exponent of this thinker's doctrines in England.
Nicholas {Malebranche}