id,comments,provenance,dictionary,created_at,reviewed_on,work_id,theme,context,updated_at,metaphor,text
10640,"•INTEREST. Berkeley here complains about metaphors of mind! Philosophers should retire into themselves and attentively consider there own meaning.
•And see STC on billiard balls, he connects the metaphor with Hobbes.","Searching in Past Masters; found again reading Colin Murray Turbayne's ""Berkeley's Two Concepts of Mind"" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 20:1 (September, 1959): 85-92, 89. See also Peter Walmsley, The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990), 48-9; and John Richetti, Philosophical Writing: Locke, Berkeley, Hume (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1983), 145.
","",2004-02-18 00:00:00 UTC,2011-09-13,4138,"","Part I, §144",2014-03-30 20:00:31 UTC,"""For example, the will is termed the motion of the soul: this infuses a belief, that the mind of man is as a ball in motion, impelled and determined by the objects of sense, as necessarily as that is by the stroke of a racket.""","But nothing seems more to have contributed towards engaging men in controversies and mistakes, with regard to the nature and operations of the mind, than the being used to speak of those things, in terms borrowed from sensible ideas. For example, the will is termed the motion of the soul: this infuses a belief, that the mind of man is as a ball in motion, impelled and determined by the objects of sense, as necessarily as that is by the stroke of a racket. Hence arise endless scruples and errors of dangerous consequence in morality. All which I doubt not may be cleared, and truth appear plain, uniform, and consistent, could but philosophers be prevailed on to retire into themselves, and attentively consider their own meaning.
(Part I, §144, p. 107)"
18277,"",Reading,"",2011-03-31 22:02:45 UTC,,4495,"",Dialogue I,2011-03-31 22:02:45 UTC,"""Gorgias hath gone further, demonstrating man to be a piece of clock-work or machine; and that thought or reason are the same thing as the impulse of one ball against another.""","Cri. Moschon, for instance, hath proved that man and beast are really of the same nature: that consequently a man need only indulge his senses and appetites to be as happy as a brute. Gorgias hath gone further, demonstrating man to be a piece of clock-work or machine; and that thought or reason are the same thing as the impulse of one ball against another. Cimon hath made noble use of these discoveries, proving as clearly as any proposition in mathematics, that conscience is a whim, and morality a prejudice; and that a man is no more accountable for his actions than a clock is for striking. Tryphon hath written irrefragably on the usefulness of vice. Thrasenor hath confuted the foolish prejudice men had against atheism, showing that a republic of atheists might live very happily together. Demylus hath made a jest of loyalty, and convinced the world there is nothing in it: to him and another philosopher of the same stamp, this age is indebted for discovering, that public spirit is an idle enthusiasm which seizeth only on weak minds. It would be endless to recount the discoveries made by writers of this sect.
(p. 51)"