Handouts for History of Western

Philosophy II, PL 252

 

The Four Causes

Descartes on Clear and Distinct Ideas

Descartes' Main Proof for the Existence of God--Third Meditation

The Ontological Argument

Descartes' Proof for the Material World

Spinoza on the Existence of God

The Infinite and Eternal Modes of Thought and Extension of the Immediate and Mediate Varieties

Leibniz's Core Principles

Leibniz's arguments for the existence of God

Locke and the adequacy of ideas

Berkeley on Locke's Resemblance thesis and on substance

Berkeley on the existence of God

Hume's statement of the Argument from Design

Hume's criticisms of the Argument from Design

The Clock Strikes Three--A Kantian Analysis

The Transcendental Deduction--one account

The Kantian Categories

 

Back to syllabus