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See also:BAXTER, See also:ANDREW (1686-1750) , Scottish metaphysician,
was See also:born in See also:Aberdeen and educated at See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:College. He maintained himself by acting as See also:tutor to noblemen's sons. From 1741 to 1747 he lived with See also:Lord See also:Blantyre and Mr See also:Hay of Drummelzier at See also:Utrecht, and made excursions in See also:Flanders, See also:France and See also:Germany. Returning to See also:Scotland, he lived at Whittingehame, near See also:Edinburgh, till his See also:death in 1750. At See also:Spa he had met See also:John Wilkes, then twenty years of See also:age, and formed a lasting friendship with him. His See also:chief See also:work, An Inquiry into
the Nature of the Human Soul (See also:editions 1733, 1737 and 1745; with appendix added in 1750 in See also:answer to an attack in Mac-
laurin's See also:Account of See also:Sir I. See also:Newton's Philosophical Discoveries, and See also:dedication to John Wilkes), examines the properties of See also:matter. The, one essential See also:property of matter is its inactivity, vis inertiae (accepted later by See also:Monboddo). All See also:movement in matter is, therefore, caused by some immaterial force, namely, See also:God. But the movements of the See also:body are not analogous to the movements of matter; they are caused by a See also:special immaterial force, the soul. The soul, as being immaterial, is immortal, and its consciousness does not depend upon its connexion with the body. The See also:argument is supported by an See also:analysis of the phenomena of dreams, which are ascribed to See also:direct spiritual influences.
Lastly Baxter attempted to prove that matter is finite. His work is an attack on See also:Toland's Letters to See also:Serena (1704), which argued that See also:motion is essential to matter, and on See also:Locke and See also:Berkeley. His See also:criticism of Berkeley (in the second See also:volume) is, however, based on the See also:common misinterpretation of his theory (see BERKELEY). Sir See also:Leslie See also:Stephen speaks of him as a curious example of " the effects of an exploded See also:metaphysics on a feeble though ingenious
See also:intellect."
Beside the Inquiry, Baxter wrote Matho sive Cosmotheoria
Puerilis (an exposition in Latin of the elements of See also:astronomy written for his pupils—editions in See also:English 1740, 1745 and 1765, with one See also:dialogue re-written); See also:Evidence of See also:Reason in See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
Proof of the See also:Immortality of the Soul (published posthumously from See also:MSS.
by Dr See also:Duncan in 1779).
See See also:life in Biographia Britannica; McCosh's Scottish See also:Philosophy,
PP. 42-49.
End of Article: BAXTER, ANDREW (1686-1750)
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