Studies on Locke : Sources, Contemporaries, and Legacy

by Hutton, Sarah; Schuurman, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781402083242
• ISBN10: 1402083246
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-03
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This collection of new essays on John Locke by a constellation of leading Locke scholars focuses on his philosophy, biography, sources and influence. The topics discussed here include his theory of ideas, his debt to Stoicism, his relations with the Dry Club and with his translator, Pierre Coste, and the hitherto overlooked critique by Thomas Beconsall. A major emphasis of the collection is the relationship between Locke and seventeenth-century philosophers, Descartes, Hobbes, Cudworth, Bayle, Malebranche and Leibniz. The coverage of Locke's legacy extends to into the eighteenth-century legacy as far as Rousseau and Kant.

Author Biography

Sarah Hutton holds a chair at Aberystwyth University. Her main area of research is seventeenth century intellectual history, with a special interest in the Cambridge Platonists. Her publications include, Anne Conway. A Woman Philosopher (2004). Newton and Newtonianism (edited with James E. Force, 2004), Platonism and the English Imagination (edited with Anna Baldwin, 1994), and an edition of Ralph Cudworth's Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1996). She is Director of the series International Archives of the History of Ideas.Paul Schuurman took his PhD degree at Keele University in 2000 under the supervision of Prof. G.A.J. Rogers and works as a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has published on the logic, epistemology and philosophy of science of Locke and Descartes. His latest book is Ideas, Mental Faculties and Method. The New Logic of Ren+¬ Descartes and John Locke and its Reception in the Dutch Republic, 1630-1750. (Leiden: Brill, 2004).

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Editors' Introduction	p. xi
List of Contributors	p. xvii
Abbreviations: Writings of Locke	p. xix
Aspects of Stoicism in Locke's Philosophy	p. 1
Hobbes, Locke and the State of Nature	p. 27
The Sovereignty of the People	p. 45
Locke's Account of Abstract Ideas-Again	p. 59
Descartes and Locke on the Nature of Matter: a Note	p. 75
Personal Identity and Human Mortality: Hobbes, Locke, Leibniz	p. 89
Locke and Leibniz on the Structure of Substance and Powers: The Metaphysics of Moral Subjects	p. 107
John Locke, Thomas Beconsall, and Filial Rebellion	p. 127
Some Thoughts Concerning Ralph Cudworth	p. 143
Circles of Virtuosi and "Charity under Different Opinions": The Crucible of Locke's Last Writings	p. 159
Vision in God and Thinking Matter: Locke's Epistemological Agnosticism Used Against Malebranche and Stillingfleet	p. 177
Pierre Coste, John Locke, and the Third Earl of Shaftesbury	p. 195
Toleration and its Place: A Study of Pierre Bayle in his Commentaire Philosophique	p. 225
Rousseau Juge de Locke or Reading Some Thoughts on Education after Emile	p. 245
Locke's "Things Themselves" and Kant's "Things in Themselves": The Naturalistic Basis of Transcendental Idealism	p. 261
List of Publications	p. 277
Index	p. 283
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