Locke on Substance, Spirit, and the Idea of God

This chapter considers Locke’s discussion of ideas of substance in Essay 2.23. Locke’s discussion is examined in the light of More’s discussions in The Immortality of the Soul. The chapter first argues that Locke is proposing a view about how one thinks about substances (not a view about their metaphysical structure) and that this view involves the idea of a so-called bare substratum. An argument against bare substratum readings (given by Michael Ayers and Robert Pasnau) is opposed, using evidence from the comparison with More. The chapter then considers arguments about the ideas of matter and spirit, arguing that Locke gives basically the same argument for the coherence of the idea of spirit that More gave against Hobbes. Finally, the chapter considers Locke’s account of the origin of the idea of God.

An Anatomical Tail Transformed Into a Cognitive Tale: A Psychologist Speculates About the Evolutionary Origins of the Idea of God

PsycCRITIQUES ◽

10.1037/a0031875 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 58 (26) ◽

Author(s):

Chris R. Schlauch

Keyword(s):

Evolutionary Origins ◽

Title of the Paper-Concept of Soul in the Meno

Restaurant Business ◽

10.26643/rb.v118i11.9945 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 118 (11) ◽

pp. 190-197

Author(s):

Ranjit Bhattacharyya

Keyword(s):

Main Question ◽

Meno belongs to the earlier dialogues of Plato. This dialogue deals with the concept of virtue and the recollective argument for the immortality of the soul. The main question of the Meno is whether virtue can be taught or not. Plato’s Socrates presents this concept by demonstrating the example of the slave boy. In this dialogue, Plato’s Socrates tries to connect the concept of Virtue and knowledge with the concept of soul.

A Comparative Study on the Idea of ‘God and Man’ in Eden Myth (󰡔The Old Testament󰡕) and Mago Myth (󰡔Jingshimgrok󰡕)

Journal of Korean Sundo Culture ◽

10.35573/jksc.19.6 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

pp. 195-246

Author(s):

Yoon-Sook Kim

Keyword(s):

Comparative Study ◽

Old Testament ◽

Gregory of Nyssa on the Soul (and the Restoration)

10.1093/oso/9780198826422.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ilaria L. E. Ramelli

Keyword(s):

Gregory Of Nyssa ◽

Definition Of ◽

In this chapter, Gregory’s treatment of the soul is examined against the backdrop of philosophical treatises On the Soul and in conversation with Origen’s psychology and On the Resurrection (while Origen never wrote On the Soul, for reasons that are here clarified). Tertullian composed both On the Soul and On the Resurrection; Gregory combined the two discussions in a remake of Plato’s Phaedo on the immortality of the soul—here analysed in many of its philosophical components and their treatment until Plotinus and Proclus, and in light of Gregory’s definition of soul and relation between resurrection and restoration. The chapter examines the role of the soul in Gregory’s ‘theology of freedom’—rooted in Plato’s philosophy—and the influence Gregory exerted on Evagrius’ theories of the threefold resurrection and of the subsumption of body into soul and soul into ‘unified nous’: Eriugena was right to trace the latter theory back to Gregory.

II.—THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL

Mind ◽

10.1093/mind/lix.233.23 ◽

1950 ◽

Vol LIX (233) ◽

pp. 23-34

Author(s):

A. H. BASSON

Keyword(s):

The Idea of God in the Light of Recent Philosophy. The Gifford Lectures delivered in the University of Aberdeen in the years 1912 and 1913. A. Seth Pringle-Pattison, LL.D., D.C.L. Oxford University Press. 1917. Pp. xvi, 417. 12s. 6d.

Harvard Theological Review ◽

10.1017/s0017816000012244 ◽

1918 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 438-439

Author(s):

W. W. Fenn

Keyword(s):

Oxford University ◽

Recent Philosophy ◽

The University ◽

Oxford University Press ◽

The Idea of God During the XVII Century

10.20935/al3327 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Annarita Magri

Keyword(s):

Xvii Century ◽

Een beetje onsterfelijk

Lampas ◽

10.5117/lam2019.4.004.bote ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 52 (4) ◽

pp. 437-452

Author(s):

Gerard Boter

Keyword(s):

Present Article ◽

The Other ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Summary The present article discusses three hotly debated interpretational issues in Diotima´s speech in Plato´s Symposium. The first of these is the relationship of Diotima´s speech to other dialogues, such as the Phaedo and the Republic, with regard to the immortality of the soul. It is argued that there is no discrepancy at all, because the immortality of the soul does not play any role in the Symposium. The second issue is the nature of the three classes of posterity: biological, spiritual and philosophical. Whereas the posterity of the first two classes can be relatively easily defined, the character of the philosopher´s posterity, ‘true virtue’, remains rather vague. It may consist in dialectical teaching of the Idea of Beauty by Socrates. Thirdly, it is argued that the philosopher´s immortality differs only gradually from the immortality of the other two classes, that is, the philosopher as a man only survives by means of his posterity.