Was Gregory of Nyssa a Berkeleyan Idealist?

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In ‘Idealism and Greek Philosophy: What Descartes Saw and Berkeley Missed’,1 Miles Burnyeat defends the following theses:

Idealism, whether we mean by that Berkeley's own doctrine that esse est percipi or a more vaguely conceived thesis to the effect that everything is in some substantial sense mental or spiritual, is one of the very few major philosophical positions that did not receive its first formulation in antiquity.2
Descartes had achieved a decisive shift of perspective without which no one, not even Berkeley, could have entertained the thought that esse est percipi.3
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)425-435
JournalBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy
Volume13
Issue number3
StatePublished - Aug 1 2005

Keywords

  • Berkeleyan idealist
  • Greek philosophy
  • Gregory of Nyssa
  • idealism

Disciplines

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences

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