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A Second Vindication of Mr Locke

By John W. Yolton , Vincent Perronet

Book information

Publisher
Thoemmes Continuum
Year
1992
ISBN
185506118X, 9781855061187
LCC
BF697 .P45 1991
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4839155 bytes)
Series
Books relating to John Locke
Edition
Facsimile of 1738 ed
Pages
158\75
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

In 1736 Perronet had published his first "Vindication of Mr Locke" defending Locke against the charge, levelled by Browne and others, of giving encouragement to sceptics and infidels. In the same year Butler published his famous "Analogy of Religion", which contained, as an appendix, the "Dissertation on Personal Identity". Here Butler makes the famous objection that memory presupposes personal identity and therefore cannot constitute it. In this second "Vindication", Perronet replies to Butler, and to similar criticisms by Andrew Baxter and Isaac Watts. Perronet here shows himself to be one of the few thinkers of his age able to grasp and appreciate the radical nature of Locke's account, and the sheer irrelevance of the traditional metaphysical concept of substance to Locke's central concerns of personal responsibility and accountability. There is a new introduction to the book by John Yolton.

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