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Berkeley''s Principles of Human Knowledge is a key text in the history of British Empiricism and 18th-century thought. As a free-standing systematic exposition of Berkeley''s ideas, this is a hugely important and influential text, central to any undergraduate''s study of the history of philosophy.>
Sommario
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
Info autore
Alasdair Richmond
