Handouts

This is a re-post of a post from a previous version of this site; it was originally published on 7 March 2005.

Last week I gave a guest lecture on Butler’s view of conscience. Here are the notes for it.

Joseph Butler (1692-1712)

Major Works:

• Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel (1726)
• The Analogy of religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature

Class Topic: Butler on Conscience

Attached you will find a handout in Word format that lays out the basic points of Berkeley's visual language argument for the existence of God.

Attached you will find another wordfind, this one devoted to Augustine, Descartes, and Malebranche. It presupposes some basic familiarity with each of the three, and, in particular, acquaintance with Augustinian themes in the latter two.

Attached you should find a wordfind, this one devoted to Nicolas Malebranche and Mary Astell. (Although the exact nature of Malebranche's influence on Astell is still a matter of scholarly study, it is certain that Astell can be put, along with John Norris, in the class of British Malebrancheans.) It presumes a certain amount of familiarity with the work of both Astell and Malebranche.

Below you will find hidden ten terms associated with Malebranche.