Kilka uwag o genezie Johna Locke’a An Examination of P. Malebranche’s Opinion of Seeing All Things in God

The subject matter of the article is the genesis of John Locke’s criticism of the Malebranchean theory of ideas as cognitive content, put forward by Locke in his work An Examination of P. Malebranche's Opinion of Seeing All Things in God. This genesis will be shown by pointing out two types of motives for Locke's criticism: (1) biographical motives, related to the immediate historical circumstances of Locke's philosophical activity, as well as (2) substantive motives, i.e. those drawn directly from Locke’s philosophical views and are declared by him outright. In the first part of the article, I will present the biographical motives related to Locke's discussion with John Norris, and in the second part, I will refer to the philosophical motives that prompted Locke to criticize Malebranche's views.