Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment in Irish Philosophy

Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1982, Pages 148-165

  Berman, David ^a  

^a NONE   (Germany)

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EID: 84931317027     PISSN: 00039101     EISSN: 16130650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/agph.1982.64.2.148     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Proceedings of the Belfast natural history and philosophy society (1923), pp. 4-26.
2. In An essay on the ancient and modem state of Ireland (Dublin, 1760), the anonymous writer states that “The Newtonian Philosophy; the excellent Boyle's experimental Philosophy, and Mr. Locke's metaphysics, prevail much in the college of Dublin …” (p. 62). For literary evidence of the importance of Locke's Essay at Trinity College, see The life of Bunckle (London, 1770), pp. 6-7.
3. The Works of John Locke (9th edition London), vol. viii, pp. 298-299.
4. Works of Locke, vol. viii, p. 421.
5. An apology for Mr. Toland, in a letter from himself… to which is prefixed a narrative (London, 1697).
6. The works of Mr. Thomas Emlyn (London, 1746); see Memoirs of Emlyn, vol. 1, p. 29; also see pp. 30-39.
7. Laith distinguished from reason (n. p., 1716. pp. 4-8); Browne was attacking Synge's Plain and easy method (Dublin, 1715), sect, xxxiii-xlvi.
8. Gentleman's religion: in three parts … (6th ed. Dublin, 1730), especially pp. 229-231.
9. See my “Francis Hutcheson on Berkeley and the Molyneux problem”. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. 74, sect. C, no. 8 (1974), pp. 259-65.
10. The theory of vision vindicated and explained (London, 1733), sect. 6. With regard to religious mystery, however, we are in a position similar to Molyneux's blind man, according to Berkeley; for we cannot understand what the signs mean: they are like words “wholly new or unknown” (sect. 45); see below section V. The metaphor of the man born blind was also at the centre of a theological debate between Thomas Emlyn and Charles Leslie; see especially Emlyn's Vindication of the remarks upon Mr. Cha. Leslie's First dialogue on Socinianism (circa 1707), pp. 1-3, and Leslie's Reply to the Vindication (London, 1708), pp. 4-8.
11. See my Introduction to Archbishop King's Sermon on predestination (Dublin. 1976). Much of the following section is taken from this Introduction.
12. See King's letter to Dodwell of 17 August 1709, Trinity College Dublin, ms no 2531 King, I should note, strongly disapproved of Dodwell's book on immortality: although Dodwell expressed a high regard for King's 1709 Sermon. On Browne and Dodwell. see A. R. Winnett, Peter Browne: provost, bishop, metaphysician (London, 1974), p. 220, note 25.
13. The Divine legation of Moses (third edition London, 1742), vol. 1, p. 8. In his Diary of 1711, Thomas Hearne wrote of “the great” Mr. Dodwell: “I take him to be the greatest scholar in Europe when he died …”, Remarks and Collections of Hcarnc. vol. 3 (Oxford, 1889), cd. C. E. Doblc, p. 176.
14. A literary journal (Dublin, 1745), edited by J-P Droz, vol. 2, pt. 1, pp. 153-167. The letter is reprinted in Mind (July 1969), pp. 385-392, with an introduction by A. A. Luce, J-P Pittion and the present writer, pp. 375-385.
15. For a detailed study of Berkeley's criticism of material and theological representa-tionalism, see my Meaning and method in Berkeley's theology (Trinity College Dublin Ph. D. thesis 1972), chaps. 4-8.
16. See my “Cognitive theology and emotive mysteries in Berkeley's Alciphron, In Proceedings of Royal Irish Academy, vol. 81, sect. C, no 7 (1981), pp. 223-7.
17. There are also instructive points of agreement in the wider philosophical positions of Berkeley and Browne, the most striking of which is their remarkably similar attacks on the received Lockean theory of abstraction. Berkeley's critique of abstraction is to be found in the Introduction (sects. 6-20) to the Principles, Browne's is in the Procedure Bk. II, chap. 4. Both men also employ the empiricist familiarity argument to defend freewill; here Browne precedes Berkeley; see Procedure, pp. 226-7 and Alciphron VII. 21-22.