CHAPTER XXIX.

HISTORY OF SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY FROM 1650 TO 1700.

Aristotelian Metaphysics 705

Their Decline. Thomas White 706

Logic 706

Stanley’s History of Philosophy 707

Gale’s Court of Gentiles 707

Cudworth’s Intellectual System 707

Its object 708

Sketch of it 708

His plastic nature 708

His account of old Philosophy 708

His Arguments against Atheism 709

More 709

Gassendi 710

His Logic 710

His Theory of Ideas 710

And of the Nature of the Soul 710

Distinguishes Ideas of Reflection 711

Also Intellect from Imagination 711

His Philosophy misunderstood by Stewart 712

Bernier’s Epitome of Gassendi 713

Process of Cartesian Philosophy 713

La Forge--Regis 714

Huet’s Censure of Cartesianism 715

Port-Royal Logic 716

Malebranche 717

His Style 717

Sketch of his Theory 717

Character of Malebranche 724

Compared with Pascal 724

Arnauld on True and False ideas 725

Norris 725

Pascal 725

Spinosa’s Ethics 726

Its general Originality 726

View of his Metaphysical Theory 727

Spinosa’s Theory of action and Passion 731

Character of Spinosism 732

Glanvil’s Scepsis Scientifica 733

His Plus Ultra 734

Dalgarno 735

Wilkins 736

Locke on Human Understanding 736

Its merits 736

Its Defects 737

Origin of Ideas according to Locke 737

Vague Use of the Word Idea 738

An Error as to Geometrical Figure 739

His Notions as to the Soul 740

And its Immateriality 740

His Love of Truth and Originality 741

Defended in two cases 742

His View of Lunatic Ideas 742

General Praise 743

Locke’s Conduct of Understanding 743

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