Materialism from Hobbes to Locke Duncan Stewart
Materialism from Hobbes to Locke Duncan Stewart Are human beings purely material creatures, or is there something else to them, an immaterial part that does some (or all) of the thinking, and might…
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Materialism from Hobbes to Locke Duncan Stewart
Are human beings purely material creatures, or is there something else to them, an immaterial part that does some (or all) of the thinking, and might even be able to outlive the death of the body?This book is about how a series of seventeenth-century philosophers tried to answer that question. This is in obvious contrast to the approach of his contemporary Ren Descartes. It begins by looking at the views of Thomas Hobbes, who developed a thoroughly materialist account of the human mind, and later of God as well.
Both More and Cudworth thought Hobbes's materialism radically inadequate to explain the workings of the world, while Cavendish developed a distinctive, anti-Hobbesian materialism of her own. After examining Hobbes's materialism, Stewart Duncan considers the views of three of his English critics: Henry More, Ralph Cudworth, and Margaret Cavendish. The second half of