A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

by George Berkeley
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

by George Berkeley

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Overview

The text printed in this volume is the 1734 edition of George Berkeley's "Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge" in which he argues that physical things consist of nothing but ideas, and so do not exist outside the mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9791029909863
Publisher: FV éditions
Publication date: 09/01/2020
Edition description: Large Type
Pages: 140
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

George Berkeley (1685-1753) was one of the three great British empiricist philosophers; his best known works include An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision and A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge.

Jonathan Cowley is a British voice actor who calls Los Angeles home. He has received AudioFile Earphones Awards for his narration of The Science of Evil by Simon Baron-Cohen, The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart, and The Angry Chef's Guide to Spotting Bullsh*t in the World of Food by Anthony Warner.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introductory Material
How to Use this Book
Editor's Introduction
1. Preamble
2. Berkeley's Life
3. The Target (or, What Berkeley didn't Believe)
4. Berkeley's Metaphysical Picture
5. What Happens in the Principles?
6. The Arguments of Principles 1-24
7. Berkeley's Attack on the Doctrine of Abstract Ideas
8. Abstract Ideas in the Principles
9. The Existence of God
10. Physical Reality
11. Scepticism
12. Berkeley and the Progress of Science
13. The Nature of Spirits
14. Berkeley's Intellectual Antecedents
15. The Berkeley-Johnson Correspondence
The Text Printed in this Edition; Bibliography and Further Reading; Analysis of the Principles
Part 2: The Texts
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Preface
Introduction
On the Principles of Human Knowledge Part I
The Berkeley-Johnson Correspondence
Johnson to Berkeley, 10 September 1729
Berkeley to Johnson, 25 November 1729
Johnson to Berkeley , 5 February 1730
Berkeley to Johnson , 24 March 1730
Part 3: Glossary, Notes, and Index
Glossary
Notes to the Principles
Notes to the Berkeley-Johnson Correspondence
Index
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