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Ausgabe:

Januar/2015

Spalte:

93–95

Kategorie:

Dogmen- und Theologiegeschichte

Autor/Hrsg.:

Nols, Carmen

Titel/Untertitel:

Zeichenhafte Wirklichkeit. Realität als Ausdruck der kommunikativen Präsenz Gottes in der Theologie George Berkleys

Verlag:

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2011. IX, 305 S. = Collegium Metaphysicum, 2. Lw. EUR 59,00. ISBN 978-3-16-150793-9.

Rezensent:

Douglas Hedley

A son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet and metaphysician, died young while S. T. Coleridge was learning German and studying at the university of Goettingen in 1799. His name was Berkeley Coleridge. The name of the tragic infant of the poet reveals something of a lineage that conflicts with the traditional triumvirate of British Empiricism: Locke, Berkeley and Hume. George Berkeley may be seen, more helpfully I think, between the Cambridge Pla-ton­ists Ralph Cudworth and Henry More and the nineteenth century S. T. Coleridge.
In her lucid and well structured monograph Carmen Nols endeavours to correct the ubiquitous view of Berkeley as a brilliant reasoner who exposed the inadequacies of Locke’s theory of mind and paved the way for the genius of Hume. Berkeley, on this ...


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