Geulinx

Geulinx, or GEULINGX, ARNOLD, a Dutch philosopher, one of the disciples of Descartes (q.v.), and a leading exponent of the speculative doctrine known as Occasionalism. Very little that is authentic is known about his life. He was born at Antwerp in 1625; for twelve years, from 1646, he lectured successfully at Louvain, was then deposed for some reason not ascertained, and, after living at Leyden in great distress, was in 1665 appointed professor of Philosophy there, but died four years later. His ideas are expounded in books entitled Saturnalia, Logica, Ethica, published in his lifetime, and in Annotata precurrentia ad Cartesii Principia (1690) and Metaphysica Vera (1691), which appeared after his death. The salient point of his teaching is an endeavour to explain the relations which obtain between soul and body, the mutual interaction of which under stimulus he ascribed to divine intervention and preordained arrangement. See works by Grimm (Jena, 1875), Pfeiderer (Tübingen, 1882), and Samtleben (Halle, 1886).