Materialism from Hobbes to Locke / Stewart Duncan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duncan, Stewart, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.

Hobbes, Thomas.

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679--Criticism and interpretation.

Locke, John, 1632-1704.

Locke, John.

Locke, John, 1632-1704. Essay concerning human understanding.

Materialism--Europe--History--17th century.

Materialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 233 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Exploring a pivotal debate in seventeenth-century European philosophy about the nature of human beings - whether they are purely material things, or whether they have an immaterial soul that thinks and can survive the death of the body - this book traces this debate from the work of the materialist philosopher Thomas Hobbes, through the responses of three of his critics: the Platonists Henry More and Ralph Cudworth, and the materialist Margaret Cavendish, to the discussion of materialism in John Locke's essay concerning human understanding.

Contents:

Introduction: A Debate about Materialism

1. Hobbes against Descartes

2. Hobbes's Materialism

3. More and Cudworth against Hobbes

4. Cavendish's Anti-​Hobbesian Materialism

5. Locke against Descartes

6. Locke on Substance, Spirit, and the Idea of God

7. Locke, God, and Materialism

8. Locke's Inclinations

Epilogue: Lockean Materialism.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-761302-0

0-19-761303-9

0-19-761301-2

OCLC:

1281990550