Towards a Solution to the "Perennially Intriguing Problem" of the Sources of Jonathan Edwards's Idealism
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Rehnman, S. (2015) Towards a Solution to the "Perennially Intriguing Problem" of the Sources of Jonathan Edwards's Idealism. Jonathan Edwards Studies, 5(2)Abstract
This paper argues that Jonathan Edwards developed idealism from the instruction he received
and conveyed in logic, ethics, physics and metaphysics. His view of the direct perception of
mind with its ideas and the indirect perception of matter provided the basis for a dualism
between mind and matter and the necessary condition of the distinction between the ideal and
the material world.
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This is an open access article originally published in the journal Jonathan Edwards Studies, 2015.