CHAPTER XXIX.

HISTORY OF SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY FROM 1650 TO 1700.

Aristotelian Metaphysics 705 Their Decline. Thomas White 706 Logic 706 Stanley’s History of Philosophy 707 Gale’s Court of Gentiles 707 Cudworth’s Intellectual System 707 Its object 708 Sketch of it 708 His plastic nature 708 His account of old Philosophy 708 His Arguments against Atheism 709 More 709 Gassendi 710 His Logic 710 His Theory of Ideas 710 And of the Nature of the Soul 710 Distinguishes Ideas of Reflection 711 Also Intellect from Imagination 711 His Philosophy misunderstood by Stewart 712 Bernier’s Epitome of Gassendi 713 Process of Cartesian Philosophy 713 La Forge--Regis 714 Huet’s Censure of Cartesianism 715 Port-Royal Logic 716 Malebranche 717 His Style 717 Sketch of his Theory 717 Character of Malebranche 724 Compared with Pascal 724 Arnauld on True and False ideas 725 Norris 725 Pascal 725 Spinosa’s Ethics 726 Its general Originality 726 View of his Metaphysical Theory 727 Spinosa’s Theory of action and Passion 731 Character of Spinosism 732 Glanvil’s Scepsis Scientifica 733 His Plus Ultra 734 Dalgarno 735 Wilkins 736 Locke on Human Understanding 736 Its merits 736 Its Defects 737 Origin of Ideas according to Locke 737 Vague Use of the Word Idea 738 An Error as to Geometrical Figure 739 His Notions as to the Soul 740 And its Immateriality 740 His Love of Truth and Originality 741 Defended in two cases 742 His View of Lunatic Ideas 742 General Praise 743 Locke’s Conduct of Understanding 743