biography
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Geulincx or Geulingx, Arnold
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pseudonym Philaretus
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pronunciation:
[goelingks]
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| lived:
| (1624–69)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, born in Antwerp, N Belgium. He taught at the Catholic University of Louvain, but was expelled for his anti-scholasticism in 1658. He then converted to Calvinism, and became professor of philosophy at Leyden in 1665. He was a leading exponent of Descartes' philosophy, and is best known for his doctrine of ‘Occasionalism’: God himself ‘occasions’ every mental or physical process, while body and mind operate separately, without causal interaction, like two clocks which are perfectly synchronized. His main works are Quaestiones quodlibeticae (1653, Miscellaneous Questions), re-edited by him as Saturnalia (1665), Logica restituta (1662), and De virtute (1665). |
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