Published : 2015-03-31

Between Descartes and Berkeley: A Forgotten Chapter in the History of the British Early-Modern Philosophy

Bartosz Żukowski



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The aim of this paper is to suggest how the internal logic and dynamics of the development of Cartesian philosophy can be reconstructed by means of the historical-theoretical analysis of one of the most forgotten lines of reception of Cartesianism, leading through the philosophy of British thinkers minorum gentium: Arthur Collier, John Norris, Richard Burthogge etc. Such analysis of the particular stages of the evolution of post-Cartesian thought—within one intellectual-cultural context, makes it possible to situate Berkeley’s system (considered as a culminating point of the development of post-Cartesian British idealism) in the stream of the widely understood Cartesian thought. At the same time the analysis provides sufficient data to draw some general conclusions regarding the logic of the development of Cartesian-inspired philosophical systems.

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Cartesianism, British philosophy, immaterialism, Collier, Berkeley



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Żukowski, B. (2015). Between Descartes and Berkeley: A Forgotten Chapter in the History of the British Early-Modern Philosophy. Roczniki Filozoficzne, 61(1), 101–115. https://doi.org/10.18290/rf.2015.63.1-7

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