Berkeley's Principles of human knowledge : a reader's guide /
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 p...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2009.
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Series: | Continuum reader's guides.
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Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Context. Biography ; Berkeley's philosophical background
- Overview of themes. The central philosophical arguments
- Reading the text. The principles : introduction (1-25) ; The principles : part I (1-156) ; The objects of knowledge : ideas and spirits (1-33) ; Philosophical objections to immaterialism and replies (34-81) ; Advanges of immaterialism : philosophy, science, mathematics and religion (82-156)
- Reception and influence
- Guide to further reading.