Handouts
for History of Western
Philosophy
II, PL 252
Descartes on Clear and Distinct Ideas
Descartes' Main Proof for the Existence of God--Third Meditation
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 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