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Berkeley’s Christian Neoplatonism and Malebranchean Divine Ideas
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Abstract
Berkeley’s doctrine of archetypes explains how God perceives and can have the same ideas as finite minds. His appeal to Christian Neoplatonism opens up a way to understand how the relation of mind, ideas, and their union is modeled on the Cappadocian Church Fathers’ account of the Persons of the Trinity. This way of understanding Berkeley indicates why he, in contrast to Descartes or Locke, thinks that mind (spiritual substance) and ideas (objects of mind) cannot exist or be thought of apart from one another. It also hints at why Gregory of Nyssa’s immaterialism sounds so much like Berkeley’s.
Title: Berkeley’s Christian Neoplatonism and Malebranchean Divine Ideas
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Abstract
Berkeley’s doctrine of archetypes explains how God perceives and can have the same ideas as finite minds.
His appeal to Christian Neoplatonism opens up a way to understand how the relation of mind, ideas, and their union is modeled on the Cappadocian Church Fathers’ account of the Persons of the Trinity.
This way of understanding Berkeley indicates why he, in contrast to Descartes or Locke, thinks that mind (spiritual substance) and ideas (objects of mind) cannot exist or be thought of apart from one another.
It also hints at why Gregory of Nyssa’s immaterialism sounds so much like Berkeley’s.
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