Thinking about a comment of Eric Schliesser’s about “Toland’s defense of book learning against the distrust of it by Moderns” reminded me of a feature of Toland’s Christianity not Mysterious [CNM] that I find a little puzzling. Early in Christianity not Mysterious Toland seems largely to be summarizing familiar Lockean views from the Essay. Thus …
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Leibniz, Locke, and ‘books aiming to prove the truth of religion’
[Cross-posted from philosophymodsquad.wordpress.com.] At a recent conference I gave a paper on Leibniz’s correspondence with Thomas Burnett of Kemnay. Among my questions was how Locke appeared to Leibniz. Did he look like a Socinian, or similar sort of religiously dubious character? In answering that, it would be good to have some idea of how Leibniz thought about Locke’s Reasonableness …
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Locke, Pasnau, and More
[Cross-posted from Modsquad.] A lot has been said about Locke’s account of substance and substratum. Robert Pasnau has recently argued (in his book Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671) that “the substratum just is the ordinary substance” (160). Pasnau says that Locke’s statements about substance become less puzzling when we put them in “the proper historical context, that of the thin …
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