L’imagination et le système des facultés de l’âme chez Malebranche

The paper examins Malebranche’s theory on imagination, starting from the Cartesian and Baconian philosophical inheritance. One sustains the idea that the by-polarity intellect–immagination, as understood by Malebranche, belongs to the human condition, to his ontological situation. The human spirit is, by its nature, an intermediar between God and natural bodies, being placed in a double relation: with God and with own body