The aim of the article is to analyse the influence of the 17th-century debate on moral law as represented by Grotius and Pufendorf on George Berkeley’s vision of natural law included in his Passive Obedience (1712). The analysis regards the origin, scope and character of natural law as presented by all three authors. Also, it touches on the issues of their visions of the role of God in the world, place of religion in a civil state, as well as their concepts of human nature and a conflict of a duty of non-resistance and a right to self-preservation, which was a source of great contention among philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries.
The aim of this article is to show the meaning of the central role and the place of the new theory of vision in Berkeley’s philosophy. Apart from its value in explaining the phenomenon of visual perception it is important in bringing God closer to the life of men, which was the aim of Berkeley’s thought. The visual language which is gradually revealed as a part of the new theory of vision influences human seeing and understanding of the world and their organization of moral life.
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