The Essential Berkeley

by George Berkeley

Overview

This volume contains two books setting out George Berkeley's epistemology, A Treatise Concerning Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous.

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940012938022
Publisher:	Mobile Lyceum
Publication date:	06/07/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	192 KB

About the Author

George Berkeley, also known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne), was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism." 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 perceived. Thus, as Berkeley famously put it, for physical objects "esse est percipi" ("to be is to be perceived"). Berkeley is also known for his critique of abstraction, an important premise in his argument for immaterialism.