Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: George Berkeley And Early Modern Philosophy
Author(s): Daniel Stephen H. (Presidential Professor Of Teaching Excellence And Professor Of Philosophy Presidential Professor Of Teaching Excellence And Professor Of Philosophy Texas A& M University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192893895
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 5/23/2021
Category: Philosophy Of Religion