George Berkeley Alciphron in Focus

by David Berman (Editor)

Overview

Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher (1732) is Berkeley's main work of philosophical theology and a crucial source of his views on meaning and language. This edition contains the four most important dialogues and a selection of critical essays and commentaries reflecting the response of such writers as Hutcheson, Mill and Antony Flew. The only single edition currently in print, it argues that Alciphron has a more important place both in the Berkeley canon and in early modern philosophy than is generally thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415063739
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/25/1993
Series:	Philosophers in Focus
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Berman is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. His publications include A History of Atheism: From Hobbes to Russell (1990) and a number of works on Berkeley. He is editor of the Berkeley Newsletter.

Table of Contents

Introduction, David Berman; Part 1 Alciphron, George Berkeley; The First Dialogue; The Third Dialogue; The Fourth Dialogue; The Seventh Dialogue; Chapter 1 From Divine Analogy(1733) pp. 475–9, 521–5, 537–40, Peter Browne; Chapter 2 ‘Additions and Corrections’ from Inquiry into Beauty and Virtue(4th Edn, 1738), Francis Hutcheson; Chapter 3 From Philosophical Works(1754), Vol. 1, pp. 176–81, Lord Bolingbroke; Chapter 4, J.S. Mill; Chapter 5 From English Thought in the Eighteenth Century(1876), Leslie Stephen; Chapter 6 Berkeley on Beauty, J.O. Urmson; Chapter 7 Berkeley’s Divine Language Argument, A. David Kline; Chapter 8 Cognitive Theology and Emotive Mysteries in Berkeley’s Alciphron, David Berman; Chapter 9 Was Berkeley a Precursor of Wittgenstein?, Antony Flew;