Berkeley and Leibniz Should be Friends
In his 1733 Theory of Vision Vindicated, commenting on the prevalence of the deist and free-thinking movements in England and Ireland, and justifying his association of these views with outright atheism, Berkeley writes: That atheistical principles have taken deeper root, and are farther spread than most people are apt to imagine, will be plain to whoever considers that pantheism, materialism, fatalism are nothing but atheism a little disguised; that the notions of Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibnitz [sic], and Bayle are relished and applauded; that as they who deny the freedom and immortality of the soul in effect deny its being, even...
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Topic(s):
Baruch Spinoza
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Contemporary Thinkers
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Free Will
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G. W. Leibniz
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George Berkeley
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Grace/Predestination
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Historical Thinkers
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Idealism/Phenomenalism
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Metaphysics
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Philipp van Limborch
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Mind
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Pierre Bayle
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Theology
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Thomas Hobbes
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Vere Chappell
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