Berkeley's 'Principles of Human Knowledge' A Reader's Guide,9781847060280

Berkeley's 'Principles of Human Knowledge' A Reader's Guide

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ISBN13: 9781847060280
ISBN10: 1847060285
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-05-01
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

An introduction to Berkeley's seminal text, a key text in the history of philosophy that is very widely studied at undergraduate level.

Table of Contents

Preface Note on the Text of the Principles Abbreviations 1. Context i. Biography ii. Berkeley's Philosophical Background 2. Overview of Themes 3. Reading the Text The Principles - Introduction (§§1-25) The Principles - Part One (§§1-156) The Objects and Subject of Knowledge: Ideas and Spirit (§§1-3) Unperceived Existence: "a nicer strain of abstraction" (§§4-7) Problems for Materialism (§§8-17) A Cartesian ‘Dream' Argument (§§18-21) The ‘Master Argument' (§§22-24) From the Inertness of Ideas to the Existence of God (§§25-33) Philosophical Objections to Immaterialism, and Replies (§§34-81) Religious Objections to Immaterialism and Replies (§§82-4) Further Advantages of Immaterialism (§§85-100) "Two great provinces of speculative science" (§§101-107) The Attack on Absolute Space (§§108-17) Mathematics (§§118-34) Other Minds (§§135-47) The Divine Language of Nature (§§148-156) 4) Reception and Influence 5) Guide to Further Reading Index Notes

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