George Berkeley and early modern philosophy / Stephen H. Daniel.
| Author/creator | Daniel, Stephen H., 1950- |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021. |
| Description | x, 338 pages ; illustration, 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Contents | How Berkeley's works are interpreted -- Berkeley's stoic notion of spiritual substances -- The Ramist context of Berkeley's philosophy -- Berkeley, Suárez, and the esse-existere distinction -- Berkeley on representation -- Berkeley and Descartes on mind -- Berkeley and Hobbes -- Berkeley and Arnauld on ideas -- Berkeley and Spinoza -- Berkeley's Christian Neoplatonism and Malebranchean divine ideas -- Berkeley and Malebranche on human freedom -- Berkeley and Locke's substance-person distinction -- Berkeley's appropriation of Bayle's constitutive skepticism -- The harmony of the Leibniz-Berkeley juxtaposition -- Berkeley on God -- Berkeley's pantheistic discourse -- Berkeley on God's knowledge of pain -- Berkeley, Browne, and Collins: the rejection of divine analogy -- Berkeley, Edwards, and Ramist logic -- Appendix 1: Berkeley's Doctrine of Mind and the 'Black List Hypothesis': A Dialogue -- Appendix 2: How Berkeley Redefines Substance: A Reply to My Critics. |
| Summary | "Stephen Daniel presents a study of the philosophy of George Berkeley in the intellectual context of his times, with a particular focus on how, for Berkeley, mind is related to its ideas. Daniel does not assume that thinkers like Descartes, Malebranche, or Locke define for Berkeley the context in which he develops his own thought. Instead, he indicates how Berkeley draws on a tradition that informed his early training and that challenges much of the early modern thought with which he is often associated. Specifically, this book indicates how Berkeley's distinctive treatment of mind (as the activity whereby objects are differentiated and related to one another) highlights how mind neither precedes the existence of objects nor exists independently of them. This distinctive way of understanding the relation of mind and objects allows Berkeley to appropriate ideas from his contemporaries in ways that transform the issues with which he is engaged. The resulting insights-for example, about how God creates the minds that perceive objects-are only now starting to be fully appreciated"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-331) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020945977 |
| ISBN | 0192893890 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780192893895 (hardback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |