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Title Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (Penguin Classics)
Author Berkeley, George
Binding Paperback
Edition Penguin Classics
Condition Used - Acceptable
Pages 224
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, London
Publication date 1988-07-05
Features Bibliography
Bookseller's Inventory # 0140432930-7-1
ISBN 9780140432930 / 0140432930
Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
Dimensions 7.68 x 5.28 x 0.58 in (19.51 x 13.41 x 1.47 cm)
Age range 18 to UP years
Grade levels 13 - UP
Reading level 1510
Themes
- Chronological Period: Modern
Category Philosophy
Library of Congress subjects Soul, Idealism
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 88170819
Dewey Decimal Code 192
Quantity available 1

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Summary

Whether viewed as extreme skepticism or enlightened common sense, the writings of Berkeley are a major influence on modern philosophy. Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was one of the great British empirical philosophers. He believed that the existence of material objects depends on their being perceived and The Principles of Human Knowledge sets out this denial of non-mental material reality. At first his views were unfavorably received by the London intelligentsia, and the entertaining Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous are a clarification of the Realist argument and a response to accusations of atheism and skepticism. In the nineteenth century John Stuart Mill wrote that he considered Berkeley's work to be of "greatest philosophic genius," and it is true to say that its Immaterialism has influenced many recent philosophers.

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Whether viewed as extreme skepticism or enlightened common sense, the writings of Berkeley are a major influence on modern philosophy. Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was one of the great British empirical philosophers. He believed that the existence of material objects depends on their being perceived and The Principles of Human Knowledge sets out this denial of non-mental material reality. At first his views were unfavorably received by the London intelligentsia, and the entertaining Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous are a clarification of the Realist argument and a response to accusations of atheism and skepticism. In the nineteenth century John Stuart Mill wrote that he considered Berkeley's work to be of "greatest philosophic genius," and it is true to say that its Immaterialism has influenced many recent philosophers.

About the author

George Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Irish philosopher best known for the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism." He wrote A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge in 1710.

Roger Woolhouse was educated at Dent's School, Saltburn, and University College London. He has taught at University College Cardiff, the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University, and is presently professor of philosophy at the University of York and visiting professor at Rutgers University. He is the author of Locke's Philosophy of Science and Knowledge, Locke, The Empiricists, and Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz. He has also edited Goerge Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous for Penguin Classics.

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