Was Gregory of Nyssa a Berkeleyan Idealist?

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Notes

¹In Idealism: Past and Present ed. by G. Vesey, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), pp.19–50.

²Ibid., p. 19.

³Ibid., p. 50.

⁴ The Works of George Berkeley Bishop of Cloyne, vol. 5, ed. by A. A. Luce and T. E. Jessop, (London: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, 1953), §311, p. 143.

⁵Ibid., p. 50.

⁶R. Sorabji, Matter, Space, and Motion, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988); Time, Creation and the Continuum, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983).

⁷Sorabji (1983), p. 288.

⁸Sorabji does not dispute Burnyeat's critique of Berkeley's interpretation of Plato and Aristotle. I agree with Burnyeat that Berkeley misunderstood Plato and Aristotle on the status of material bodies.

⁹See sections 151–83 of the Theaetetus for an explanation and critique of the theory.

¹⁰Burnyeat, p. 20.

¹¹Ibid.

¹²Ibid., p. 29.

¹³Ibid.

¹⁴Ibid. pp. 43–4.

¹⁵Ibid., pp. 44–5.

¹⁶Ibid., p. 46.

¹⁷Ibid., p. 19.

¹⁸Sorabji (1983), p. 288.

¹⁹Ibid., p. 287.

²⁰Ibid, p. 290.

²¹Ibid.? Sorabji (trans.) In hexaemeron, ibid., p. 290.

²²Ibid., De Anima et Resurrectione, trans. by Sorabji, ibid., p. 291.

²³Ibid., De Hominis Opificio, trans. by Sorabji, ibid., p. 291.

²⁴Sorabji (1988), p. 55.

²⁵Sorabji (1983), pp. 292–3.

²⁶Ibid., p. 292.

²⁷Ibid.

²⁸Ibid.

²⁹Ibid., p. 291.

³⁰Ibid., p. 293.

³¹Ibid.

³²Ibid.

³³Ibid., p. 287.

³⁴Ibid., pp. 292–3.

³⁵Ibid.

³⁶Ibid.

³⁷See sections 16–24 and 67–84.

³⁸See Dialogue 2, passim.