Locke and Leibniz on Perception

• Authors: Grzeliński Adam

Title variants

PL

Locke i Leibniz o percepcji

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In his critique of the Lockean concept of perception as presented in Nouveaux essais, Leibniz reproaches Locke for neglecting the role of minute perceptions in experience and reducing all mental operations to the sphere of consciousness. However, the critique seems to be the result of the differences of their philosophical standpoints: Leibniz’s idealistic metaphysics, and Locke’s commonsensical empiricism rather than of the different understanding of perception itself. The descriptions of the process of perceiving provided by them seem to be surprisingly similar, whilst the difference between their stances is for the most part no more than terminological. The dispute is rooted in their different approaches to the role of psychological investigations, which for Locke are autonomous and quite independent from the claims of metaphysics.

PL

W swej krytyce Locke’owskiego pojęcia percepcji, przedstawionej w Nouveaux essais, Leib­niz zarzuca angielskiemu filozofowi, że nie uwzględnił istnienia “minute perceptions” i redu­kuje wszystkie operacje mentalne jedynie do sfery świadomości. Wydaje się jednak, że krytyka ta wy­nika z odmienności stanowisk filozoficznych—idealistycznej metafizyki i zdorowo­rozsąd­ko­we­go empiryzmu—a nie z różnicy w rozumieniu samej percepcji. Przedstawiony przez obu filo­zo­fów psychologiczny opis procesu percypowania wydaje się być zaskakująco podobny, różnica zaś stanowisk ma charakter w dużej mierze terminologiczny, a spór wynika zarówno z faktu, że w przeciwieństwie do Leibniza Locke traktuje opis psychologiczny w sposób do pewnego stopnia auto­­­nomiczny i uniezależnia go od twierdzeń metafizyki.

Keywords

EN

Leibniz; Locke; perception; idealism; empiricism; early modern philosophy

PL

Leibniz; Locke; percepcja; idealizm; empiryzm; filozofia nowożytna

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL
• Journal: Roczniki Filozoficzne
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 65
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 167-183

Dates

published

2017-06

Contributors

author

Grzeliński Adam

• Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18290/rf.2017.65.2-8