"If, as H. Gouhier once remarked, the philosophy of
Malebranche is one long systematic meditation on the various attributes of God,
[then] one is entitled to suppose that attention constitutes one of these, and
that, as N. Depraz indicates, the love of God is [(comprend)] a form of
attention, as much cognitive as affective, in this [respect], that he is at
once attentive and indistractably so [(attentif et attentionné)] in his divine
providence. Thus, the sometimes hard
work that attention demands of us [(que réclame l’attention aux humains)]
corresponds to the gracious movement of the divine attention. As the third of the Méditations chrétiennes
et métaphysiques indicates explicitly, that attention is nothing other than
[the attention] of love: 'if you ask
without attention, this is [for] lack of love', just as an attention without perseverance
is only a ‘love too weak’[, a love] that will obtain from God only an inaudible reply."
Michel Dupuis, "L'attention
et l'amour de l’Ordre dans la morale de Malebranche," L'attention au XVIIe siècle: conceptions et usages =Les études
philosophiques 2017, no. 1 (2017): 69-70
(59-71). On attentionner, see,
for example, the CNRTL.
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