Locke and French Materialism

Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press (1991)
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Abstract

This book tells for the first time the long and complex story of the involvement of Locke's suggestion that God could add to matter the power of thought in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding 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 also discussed.

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Systems of Philosophy

The question of possible interaction between a soul and its body was not so easily resolved, but, especially at a time in France when occasionalism was once again in the ascendancy, physical influence of body on soul, or intentional action of soul on body, was not the favoured hypothesis o... see more

General Conclusion

This chapter presents some concluding thoughts from the author. The adventures of Locke's suggestion in France can be described as ‘picaresque’ because of the way this suggestion appears, reappears, is attacked and defended in so many places and in such different contexts. The fact that Lo... see more

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