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

    by George Berkeley ...
    HYLAS. It is indeed something unusual; but my thoughts were so taken up with a subject I was discoursing of last night, that finding I could not sleep, I resolved to rise and take a turn in the garden. PHIL. It happened well, to let you see what innocent and agreeable pleasures you lose every morning. Can there be a pleasanter time of the day, or a more delightful season of the year? That purple ... Read more

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  • A Treatise Concerning The Principles of Human Knowledge

    by George Berkeley ...
    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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  • An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision

    by George Berkeley ...
    George Berkeley was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others). This theory denies the existence of material substance and instead contends that familiar objects like tables and chairs are only ideas in the minds of perceivers, and as a result cannot exist without being ... Read more

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

    by George Berkeley ...
    "Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists" is a philosophical work by George Berkeley that explores the nature of reality and perception. Through a dialogue format, Berkeley presents the views of Hylas, who represents materialism, and Philonous, who advocates for idealism. The text challenges the skepticism surrounding the existence of the external world ... Read more

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  • A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

    by George Berkeley ...
    Published in 1710, George Berkeley’s "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge" presents a form of Metaphysical Idealism which asserts that there are two kinds of reality, idea and spirit. Ideas are real because they can be perceived. Spirit is real because it can have ideas, and because it can perceive them.Berkeley argues that ideas are derived from physical and mental perceptions ... Read more

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  • Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues

    by George Berkeley ...
    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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  • Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous

    by George Berkeley ...
    An extension of Berkleys ideas the work presents his philosophy in the form of dialogues. The author has presented arguments to prove the existence of god and that the material world consists completely of ideas and not physical objects. He reiterates that there is a diety that maintains order and arrangement in the world around us. ... Read more

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  • An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision

    by George Berkeley ...
    In "An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision," George Berkeley presents a groundbreaking exploration of visual perception that challenges the prevailing Cartesian views of his time. Through meticulous argumentation and innovative thought, Berkeley posits that visual experience is not merely a passive reception of light but is actively shaped by the mind's inherent structures. He intricately ... Read more

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  • An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision

    by George Berkeley ...
    In 1709, Berkeley published his first major work, An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision, in which he discussed the limitations of human vision and advanced the theory that the proper objects of sight are not material objects, but light and colour. ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of George Berkeley (Illustrated)

    by George Berkeley ...
    Series Book 11 - Delphi Series Ten
    The eighteenth century Irish philosopher George Berkeley is best known for his empiricist and idealist philosophy, which argues that reality consists only of minds and their ideas. He is also known for his critique of abstraction, an important premise in his argument for immaterialism. His chief philosophical work, ‘A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge’ (1710), largely seeks to ... Read more

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  • Berkeley's Principles

    Expanded and Explained

    by George Berkeley, Tyron Goldschmidt, Scott Stapleford ...
    Berkeley's Principles: Expanded and Explained includes the entire classical text of the Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge in bold font, a running commentary blended seamlessly into the text in regular font and analytic summaries of each section. The commentary is like a professor on hand to guide the reader through every line of the daunting prose and every move in the ... Read more

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  • Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues

    by George Berkeley ...
    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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