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1 online resource (536 pages) |
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Bloomsbury Companions |
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Bloomsbury companions.
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Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Abbreviations; Contributors; Introduction; Part One Berkeley's Life and Importance; 1 George Berkeley's Biography; Notes; 2 Berkeley's Bermuda Project in Context; Education, commerce and the public good; The Rhode Island experience; The collapse of the Bermuda Project; Notes; 3 Berkeley's Correspondence; Berkeley's correspondence; Berkeley's correspondents; Minor correspondences and letters lost; Notes; 4 Berkeley and Twentieth-Century Realist-Anti-Realist Controversies; Section I: Background and plan |
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Section II: Berkeley's 'master argument'Section III: The Kantian-conceptualist route to idealism; Section IV: The empiricist inheritance; Section V: The primacy of the first-person perspective; Section VI: The impossibility of indirect realism; Section VII: Two modern Berkelians; Section VIII: Conclusion; Note; Part Two Berkeley's Major Works; 5 Atomism in Berkeley's Theory of Vision; Introduction; Berkeley's reply to his critics; The atomistic approach; Beyond atomism; Notes; 6 Berkeley's Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge |
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Introduction: Against the 'Doctrine of Abstraction'Main text; 7 Three Dialogues between Hylas, Philonous and the Sceptic; Notes; 8 The Mystery of Goodness in Berkeley'sPassive Obedience; Introduction; Historical background (1707-1708); Berkeley's approach to moral issues 1707-1712; Theological fundamentalism (1712); Notes; 9 De Motu: Berkeley's Philosophy of Science; Introduction; Natural philosophy and metaphysics; Berkeley and Newton; Absolute motion and absolute space; Berkeley as anticipating Ernst Mach; Notes; 10 Alciphron |
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Or the Minute Philosopher Berkeley's Redefinition of Free-ThinkingThe circumstances of the work's publication; Minute philosophy -- redefining the notion of free- thinking; Against Mandeville's naturalism; The fallacy of Shaftesbury's moral sense theory; Religious interpretation of experience; The refusal of Browne's negative theology; Social significance of religion; The defence of the Scripture; God's grace and human freedom; The Alciphron and the question of the development of Berkeley's philosophy; Notes |
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11 Berkeley's Querist'Hints ... What Is to Be Done in this Critical State of our Affairs' or Proposals for a Hyperborean Eutopia?Berkeley's radical solution to Ireland's problems; Berkeley's economic principles; Persuading the recalcitrant; The National Bank and the Irish Parliament; Aftermath and The Querist revised; Notes; 12 Berkeley's Siris, an Interpretation; Reading Siris; Tar as medicine; The chemistry of life; Science and its problem; Physiology; Ancient lore and cosmological vision; Berkeley, new and old; Notes; Part Three Berkeley in Context; 13 Berkeley and Descartes |
| Summary |
"Due to his theory of 'immaterialism' and Schopenhauer's regard of him as the 'father of idealism', George Berkeley (1685-1753) is one of the most important thinkers of the Early Modern period. The Bloomsbury Companion to Berkeley is a comprehensive one volume reference guide to his life, thought and work. In twenty six original essays, a team of leading international scholars of Modern Philosophy cover all of Berkeley's writings including unpublished manuscripts and correspondence, thus providing readers with a complete and accessible source of information to the entire corpus of Berkeley's writings. The book includes extended essays on key themes in Berkeley's thought as well as sections covering Berkeley's life and times, and also his intellectual influence and legacy."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.
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Berkeley, George, 1685-1753 fast |
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Logical positivism.
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Religion -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Essays.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Reference.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Logical positivism
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Philosophy, Modern
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Religion -- Philosophy
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Science -- Philosophy
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Belfrage, Bertil.
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Brook, Richard
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| ISBN |
1441128271 |
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9781441128270 |
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