Abstract
The birth of the modern world is marked by doubt. Not Descartes alone doubts, and not only the men of ratio, but even the empiricists in their very roots. Their doubt drives them to find a foothold for a new and firm beginning. The presuppositions of earlier ages are no longer satisfactory. They must be justified. Until they are justified, they are to be doubted. Former uncircumventable metaphysical concepts, such as substance and accidents, cause and effect, the principles of thought and of reality — all are exposed now for investigation, inquiry, and even rejection. Grounds are no longer grounds. There is need for new secure grounds capable of upholding the newborn sciences.
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George Berkeley, The Principles of Human Knowledge (La Salle, 111.: The Open Gourt Publishing Company, 1950), pp. 29–30.
Martin Heidegger, Holzwege (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1950), pp. 71–72.
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Vycinas, V. (1966). George Berkeley. In: Greatness and Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0661-8_11
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