A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - Hardcover

9788177554472: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

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ISBN 10: 8177554476 ISBN 13: 9788177554472

Publisher: Cosmo Publications, 2004

Berkeley s Treatise Concerning the Princifiles of Human Knoivledge, of which a reprint is here produced as the fourth of the series of Philosophical Classics of the Religion of Science Library, was first published in Dublin in 1710. The second edition, the last of the authors life-time, appeared in London in 1734, in the same volume with the third edition of the Three Dialogues Betzveen Hylas and Phiionous, a reprint of which has also been issued in this series as a companion-piece to the Principles. The text of both reprints embodies all the essential matter of the editions of Berkeley slife-time. The Principles, published when the author was only twentysix, is the most systematic of all of Berkeley sexpositions of his theory of knowledge: it was the direct outgrowth of the Essay Towards a Neiv Theory of Vision (1709), which sought to banish the metaphysical abstractions of Absolute Space and Extension from philosophy, and was itself mainly concerned with the abolition of Abstract Matter and of the ontological and theological corollaries of that concept. The Dialogues treat of substantially the same subjects, but are more familiar and elegant in form and are devoted in the main to the refutation of the most plausible popular and philosophical objections to the new doctrine. The two books mark a distinctively new epoch in philosophy and science, and together afford a comprehensive survey of Berkeley sdoctrines, placing within the reach of every reader in remarkably brief compass opinions which have profoundly influenced the course of intellectual history. Works of this kind have been almost invariably distinguished by their brevity. I had no inclination, is Berkeley scharacteristic remark, to trouble the world with large volumes.
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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.

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