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  • An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision

    "An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision" by George Berkeley explores the nature of human perception, particularly how we understand sight and distance. Berkeley challenges the traditional views of vision, arguing that our visual experiences are not direct reflections of the external world but rather depend on our sensory experiences and mental interpretations. He posits that vision is ... Read more

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  • A Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches

    A Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches by George Berkeley is a pamphlet written by the renowned Irish philosopher and bishop, in which he outlines his ideas for addressing the problem of insufficient religious clergy in Ireland. At the time of its writing, the Anglican Church in Ireland faced challenges related to the lack of clergy in rural areas, with many parishes underserved and ... Read more

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  • Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists

    George Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Irish philosopher, an anglican bishop and one of the three great British empiricists along with John Locke and David Hume. Ignored and derided in life, he is now widely re-evaluated and considered as a sort of indirect precursor of Ernst Mach, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr for his thesis on the non-existence of matter and the impossibility of an objectively ... Read more

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  • A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

    Key themes and ideas in "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge" include:Immaterialism/Idealism: Berkeley's central thesis is the denial of the existence of material substance. He argues that physical objects, as traditionally conceived, do not exist independently of the mind perceiving them. Instead, he posits that reality consists of mental or spiritual entities (ideas) and the ... Read more

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  • A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

    George Berkeley was an Irish Philosopher who is best known for putting forward the idea of subjective idealism. "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge" is one of Berkeley's best known works and in it Berkeley expounds upon this idea of subjective idealism, which in other words is the idea that all of reality, as far as humans are concerned, is simply a construct of the way our ... Read more

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    Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

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    4 hours 36 min

    Berkeley uses the Socratic mode of inquiry in Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous to question fundamental beliefs about knowledge and reality. These dialogues are between Hylas (whose name is derived from the ancient Greek word for matter) and Philonous, whose name means "lover of mind".The new physical sciences developed in the 17th century supported the materialism proposed by Thomas ... Read more

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  • A Treatise Concerning The Principles of Human Knowledge

    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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  • Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues

    Series series
    One of the greatest British philosophers, Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was the founder of the influential doctrine of Immaterialism - the belief that there is no reality outside the mind, and that the existence of material objects depends upon their being perceived. The Principles of Human Knowledge eloquently outlines this philosophical concept, and argues forcefully that the world consists purely ... Read more

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  • A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Immaterialism, Perception, and Divine Order in Early Modern Empiricism

    A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge is Berkeley's decisive statement of immaterialism: the doctrine that sensible objects exist only as perceived ideas, sustained ultimately by the infinite perception of God. Written in crisp, argumentative prose, the work dismantles abstract ideas, material substance, and representative realism, placing itself at the center of early modern ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of George Berkeley

    The Complete Works of George BerkeleyGeorge Berkeley – known as Bishop Berkeley – was an Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism".This collection includes the following:A Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in Our Foreign Plantations, and for Converting the Savage Americans to ChristianityThe Works of George BerkeleyThe ... Read more

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  • Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists

    Enriched edition. Challenging Skepticism and Atheism Through Dialogues

    In "Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists," George Berkeley presents a profound examination of epistemology and metaphysics through a captivating dialectic format. The dialogues engage two characters, Hylas, who represents materialism, and Philonous, the protagonist advocating for idealism. Berkeley'Äôs literary style is marked by clarity and ... Read more

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  • Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Berkeley's idealism started a revolution in philosophy. As one of the great empiricist thinkers he not only influenced British philosophers from Hume to Russell and the logical positivists in the twentieth century, he also set the scene for the continental idealism of Hegel and even the philosophy of Marx. There has never been such a radical critique of common sense and perception as that given in ... Read more

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