HARTLEY, DAVID. - Philosopher, b. at Armley (Yorkshire) on 30 Aug. 1705, d. at Bath on 28 Aug. 1757.
A notable exponent of the materialist current of the English Enlightenment, H. founded a psychophysical associationism, which in the second half of the eighteenth century would develop with Priestley into a rigorous monistic materialism. Drawing on Locke (v.), H. aims to reduce the duality of the sources of knowledge to the unity of sensation, eliminating reflection and justifying the relations posited by consciousness among the various sense data by recourse to the law of association. In this way the path is opened, by means of a physico-mechanical explanation of sensation, to a materialistic interpretation of psychic facts. H.'s principal work: Observations on man, his duty, his frame, and his expectations (2 vols., London 1749).
Bibliography4 worksTh. Ribot, Quid D. H. de associatione idearum senserit, Paris 1872; G. S. Bower, H. and J. Mill, London 1881; B. Schoenlaute, H. and Priestl
BIBL.: Th. Ribot, Quid D. H. de associatione idearum senserit, Paris 1872; G. S. Bower, H. and J. Mill, London 1881; B. Schoenlaute, H. and Priestly die Begründer des Associationismus in England, Halle 1882; M. Heider, Studien über D. H., Bonn 1913.
Sainati, Vittorio. “Hartley, david.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 1368. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/hartley-david.
MLA
Sainati, Vittorio. “Hartley, david.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1368. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/hartley-david.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec6_hartley_david,
author = {Sainati, Vittorio},
title = {Hartley, david},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {1368},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/hartley-david}
}
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