The Concept of Matter and Mind, Primary and Secondary Qualities: Distinction between Primary and Secondary Qualities, the Concept of Mind, the Concept of God

The concept of Matter

• When Locke comes to give an account of the qualities of matter, he comes to take the help of the scientific theory of his day.
• Besides, here he quite definitely takes the “copy-theory of ideas. ”
• Locke believes that there are two kinds of qualities, namely, primary and secondary qualities.
• The Cartesian dualism of qualities was maintained by a criticism of matter regarded as pure extension.
• According to Locke, the real quality of matter is not extension but solidity which really dep…

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Immaterialism: The Refutation of Matter as an Abstract Idea, Rejection of Distinction between Primary and Secondary Qualities, Systematic Refutation

The Concept of Immaterialism

• Berkeley rejected matter on many grounds.
• Some of the grounds are;

The refutation of matter as an abstract idea

• Berkeley՚s whole aim was religious.
• He refuted the doctrine of abstract idea not so much because it was inconsistent with empiricism.
• But because it supported matter.
• He believed in sensationalism because it at once gave him a weapon of attack against the sciences which supported the reality of matter and motion.
• Thus, Berkeley believed in spiritualism…

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