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Locke and French Materialism (Hardcover, New)
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Locke and French Materialism (Hardcover, New)
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One particular feature of Locke's Essay Concerning Human
Understanding - the suggestion that God could add to matter the
power of thought - stimulated an extensive debate in Britain
between immaterialists (those who defended two substances, mind and
matter) and materialists (those who considered matter to be
self-active). That debate was also transmitted to the Continent,
especially to France, where Locke's suggestion about thinking
matter was given prominence by Voltaire. His defence of the
suggestion was in turn attacked by a number of writers, thereby
implicating Locke in the growth of materialism in France. By the
middle of the eighteenth century, Locke's `famous hypothesis' had
become the centre of many attacks, mainly by followers of
Malebranche. This book tells for the first time the long and
complex story of the involvement of Locke's suggestion in the
growth of French materialism. There is a discussion of the `affaire
de Prades', in which Locke's name was linked with a censored thesis
at the Faculty of Theology in Paris. The similarities and
differences between English `thinking matter' and the French
`matiere pensante' of the philosophes are discussed in the last
chapter.
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