Louis de La Forge (1632–1666) was a French philosopher who in his ''Tractatus de mente humana'' (''Traité de l'esprit de l'homme'', 1664; in English, "Treatise on the Human Mind") expounded a doctrine of
occasionalism
Occasionalism is a philosophical doctrine about causation which says that created substances cannot be efficient causes of events. Instead, all events are taken to be caused directly by God. (A related concept, which has been called "occasional c ...
. He was born in
La Flèche
La Flèche () is a town and commune in the French department of Sarthe, in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire Valley. It is the sub-prefecture of the South-Sarthe, the chief district and the chief city of a canton, and the second most po ...
and died in
Saumur
Saumur () is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France.
The town is located between the Loire and Thouet rivers, and is surrounded by the vineyards of Saumur itself, Chinon, Bourgueil, Coteaux du Layon, etc.. Saumur statio ...
. He was a friend of
Descartes, and one of the most able interpreters of
Cartesianism
Cartesianism is the philosophical and scientific system of René Descartes and its subsequent development by other seventeenth century thinkers, most notably François Poullain de la Barre, Nicolas Malebranche and Baruch Spinoza. Descartes is of ...
.
Bibliography
*1664, ''Traité de l’esprit de l’homme et de ses facultés ou fonctions et de son union avec le corps'', Amsterdam.
**ed. Abraham Wolfgang, Hildesheim ; New York, Georg Olms Verlag, 1984
* Jacques Isolle, « Un Disciple de Descartes : Louis de La Forge », 1971, ''XVII siècle'' n° 92, pp. 98–131
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French philosophers
1632 births
1666 deaths
French male non-fiction writers