Berkeley's Lockean Religious Epistemology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5305482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth L Pearce (0000-0001-9419-1183, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 417-438 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jhi.2014.0018 |
| OpenAlex | W1972683768 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Berkeley's main aim in his well-known early works was to identify and refute "the grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion." This appears to place Berkeley within a well-established tradition of religious critics of Locke's epistemology, including, most famously, Stillingfleet. I argue that these appearances are deceiving. Berkeley is, in fact, in important respects an opponent of this tradition. According to Berkeley, Locke's earlier critics, including Stillingfleet, had misidentified the grounds of irreligion in Locke's philosophy while all the while endorsing the true grounds of irreligion themselves. Locke's epistemology is innocent; matter and abstraction are to blame
Atheism · Blame · Epistemology · Skepticism · Historical Philosophy and Science · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |