The Specifics of J. Locke’s and G. Berkeley’s Philosophical Concepts Interpretation in Modern British Critical Literature
Abstract
The article is devoted to the specifics of understandings of J. Locke’s and G. Berkeley’s philosophical conceptions in modern English-speaking critical sources. Actual approaches to the analysis of the philosophy of New Age in general and British empiricism in particular are shown by the examples from such authors as J. Bennet and M. Ayers. The main difference between British and native researches, is that the first ones use problematic approach. This allows the authors to research contradictory moments in J. Lockes and G. Berkeleys conceptions and to find possible solutions for those contradictions. The analysis of “idea” concept in J. Lockes philosophy, the parsing of the material substance problem and few others are among the main themes of this article
References
Ayers, M. R. Was Berkeley an Empiricist or a Rationalist? – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, рp. 34-62.
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Bracken H.M. Berkeley. – London: The Macmillan Press ltd, 1974, 173 р.
References (en)
Ayers, M. R. (1970), “Substance, Reality, and the Great, Dead Philosophers”? American Philosophical Quarterly, University of Illinois Press, Illinois, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 38-49
Ayers, M. R. (2005), “Was Berkeley an Empiricist or a Rationalist?”, Cambridge Companion to Berkeley, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, рp. 34-62.
Bennet, J. (1971), Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 372 р.
Bennett, J. (2003), Learning from six philosophers, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Vol. 2, 375 p
Bracken, H.M. (1974), Berkeley, The Macmillan Press ltd, London, 173 р.
