the love of God and of Reason (III, 16–17; 29). The cardinal virtues are the properties of virtue which immediately flow from its very essence and have nothing to do with externals: diligence, obedience, justice, humility (III, 17). Humility divides his view of the world into two parts: one, the understanding of our relation to the world; and the other, the concept of our relation to God. Humility consists in the knowledge of self and the forsaking of self. I find in myself nothing that is my own but to know and to will. I therefore must be conscious of all that I do, and that of which I am not conscious is not the product of my own causality. Hence the universal principle of causality if you do not know how a thing is done, then you do not do it. He also states a form of this principle in his Metaphysica vera. Since, then, the movements of my body take place without my knowing how the nervous impulse passes to the muscles and there causes them to contract, I do not cause my own bodily actions. "I am therefore a mere spectator of this machine. In it I form naught and renew naught, I neither make anything here nor destroy it. Everything is the work of someone else" (III, 33). This one is the Deity who sees and knows all things. The second part of Geulincx's philosophy is connected with Occasionalism as the effect with the cause. Its guiding principle is: Where you can do nothing there also you should desire nothing (III, 222). This leads to a mysticism and asceticism which however must not be taken too seriously for it is tempered by the obligation of caring for the body and propagating the species. Works All published in Latin, the works appearing in his lifetime were: Quaestiones Quodlibeticae (1653) with later edition Saturnalia; Disputatio medica inauguralis de febribus (1658); Logica fundamentis suis restituta (1662) Methodus inveniendi argumenta (1663) De virtute (1665). Opera philosophica Edited by J. P. N. Land, The Hague, Martinum Nijhoff, 1891–1893 (3 vol.) The De virtute was the first part of the Ethica, which ran to six parts when published posthumously. English editions of Geulincx's works: Metaphysics, trans. Martin Wilson, Christoffel Press, 1999. Ethics, trans. Martin Wilson, Brill, 2006. Influence He is cited by Samuel Beckett, whose character Murphy remembers the "beautiful Belgo-Latin of