Emotive meaning and Christian mysteries in Berkeley's Alciphron

British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 401-411

  Jakapi, Roomet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

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EID: 60949383080     PISSN: 09608788     EISSN: 14693526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09608780210143218     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. For the claim and related discussion see Geneviéve Brykman, Berkeley: Philosophie et Apologétique. (Paris: Libraire Philosophique J. Vrin 1984) ch. 6 pp. 299-324
2. Berkeley et le Voile des Mots (Paris: Libraire Philosophique J, Vrin 1993) ch. 6 pp. 189-224
3. Bertil Belfrage, 'The clash on semantics in Berkeley's Notebook A', Hermathena, 139 (1985): 117-26.
4. 'Berkeley's Theory of Emotive Meaning (1708)'. History of European Ideas, 7, (1986) No. 6: 643-9
5. 'Development of Berkeley's early theory of meaning'. Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Étranger, (1986) No. 3, pp. 319-30
6. 'Editor's Commentary' in George Berkeley's Manuscript Introduction, ed. B. Belfrage (Oxford: Doxa 1987) 25-57, pp. 46-50
7. Robert McKim, 'The entries in Berkeley's Notebooks: a reply to Bertil Belfrage', Hermathena, 139 (1985): 156-61, p. 157
8. David Berman, 'Berkeley's Semantic Revolution: 19 November 1707-11 January 1708', History of European Ideas, 7 (1986) No. 6: 603-7
9. M. A. Stewart, 'Berkeley's Introduction Draft', Berkeley Newsletter. 11 (1989-90): 10-19, pp. 16-17.
10. Kenneth Wayne Williford, Three Studies on Berkeley's Philosophy of Language (Master's Thesis, The University of Iowa 2000) ch. 1 pp. 1-45.
11. D. Berman, 'Cognitive theology and emotive mysteries in Berkeley's Alciphron', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 81c (1981) No 7: 219-29
12. reprinted in George Berkeley: Alciphron, or the minute philosopher in focus, ed. D. Berman (London: Routledge 1993) 200-13
13. George Berkeley. Idealism and the Man (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1994): 144-63. Berman's interpretation in its most elaborated form is contained in the latter monograph.
14. The same confusion arises in Berman's article 'George Berkeley' in Routledge History of Philsophy, Vol. V, British Philosophy and the Age of Enlightenment, ed. S. Brown (London: Routledge 1996) 123-49, pp. 139-40.
15. References to Berkeley's works are from The Works of George Berkeley Bishop of Cloyne, ed. A. A. Luce and T. E. Jessop (London 1948-57). References to Alciphron additionally cite dialogue number and section number.
16. Berman is accompanied here by Peter Walmsley who puts it explicitly that a ' "proper impression" of the words [relating to the Trinity] depends on the reader's having quite specific emotional responses "love, hope, gratitude, and obedience" and then acting appropriately on these feelings "agreeably to the notion of saving faith"', (The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy. Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought 6 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1990), p. 186, emphasis added).
17. For alternative readings, see Paul J. Olscamp, The Moral Philosophy of George Berkeley (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff 1970), 149-53
18. See also Berkeley's essays in The Guardian (1713), No. 55
19. 'The Sanctions of Religion', Works 7:198-201;
20. See also Berkeley's sermon 'On Eternal Life', Works 7:105-113; 107.