PHILOS 25B Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Monism, Empiricism, Baruch Spinoza
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Representationalism and overview of berkeley"s attacks on locke. Recap: locke and berkeley are very intertwined. One of berkeley"s primary targets is locke. The views of locke that berkeley attacks are also, to a large extent, the views of descartes. Important features of locke that berkeley attacks: primary/secondary qualities distinction, not unique to locke. In their view, the world was as it seems: what exists in the world is only size, shape, and motion, all our sensory ideas are caused by features in bodies i. In some cases, the idea resembles the feature that caused it, in which case the idea is of a primary quality. In other cases, the idea does not resemble the feature that caused it, in which case the idea is of a secondary quality: e. g. the idea of cylindracility is caused by actual cylindricality in an object.
