Recovering Bishop Berkeley

Author : S. Breuninger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230106463
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recovering Bishop Berkeley written by S. Breuninger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a close analysis of key texts and the larger historical contexts within which they were composed, this study explores George Berkeley's engagement with the social and economic threats facing Ireland and Britain, highlighting his belief that virtue and religion could play crucial roles in alleviating these problems.

Author : Tom Jones
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691217483
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Berkeley written by Tom Jones and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopher In George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the life and work of the preeminent Irish philosopher of the Enlightenment. From his early brilliance as a student and fellow at Trinity College Dublin to his later years as Bishop of Cloyne, Berkeley brought his searching and powerful intellect to bear on the full range of eighteenth-century thought and experience. Jones brings vividly to life the complexities and contradictions of Berkeley’s life and ideas. He advanced a radical immaterialism, holding that the only reality was minds, their thoughts, and their perceptions, without any physical substance underlying them. But he put forward this counterintuitive philosophy in support of the existence and ultimate sovereignty of God. Berkeley was an energetic social reformer, deeply interested in educational and economic improvement, including for the indigenous peoples of North America, yet he believed strongly in obedience to hierarchy and defended slavery. And although he spent much of his life in Ireland, he followed his time at Trinity with years of travel that took him to London, Italy, and New England, where he spent two years trying to establish a university for Bermuda, before returning to Ireland to take up an Anglican bishopric in a predominantly Catholic country. Jones draws on the full range of Berkeley’s writings, from philosophical treatises to personal letters and journals, to probe the deep connections between his life and work. The result is a richly detailed and rounded portrait of a major Enlightenment thinker and the world in which he lived.

Author : Alexander Campbell Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Letters of George Berkeley written by Alexander Campbell Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Berkeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne written by George Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel E. Flage
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745682715
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berkeley written by Daniel E. Flage and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish philosopher George Bishop Berkeley was one of the greatest philosophers of the early modern period. Along with David Hume and John Locke he is considered one of the fathers of British Empiricism. Berkeley is a clear, concise, and sympathetic introduction to George Berkeley’s philosophy, and a thorough review of his most important texts. Daniel E. Flage explores his works on vision, metaphysics, morality, and economics in an attempt to develop a philosophically plausible interpretation of Berkeley’s oeuvre as whole. Many scholars blur the rejection of material substance (immaterialism) with the claim that only minds and things dependent upon minds exist (idealism). However Flage shows how, by distinguishing idealism from immaterialism and arguing that Berkeley’s account of what there is (metaphysics) is dependent upon what is known (epistemology), a careful and plausible philosophy emerges. The author sets out the implications of this valuable insight for Berkeley’s moral and economic works, showing how they are a natural outgrowth of his metaphysics, casting new light on the appreciation of these and other lesser-known areas of Berkeley’s thought. Daniel E. Flage’s Berkeley presents the student and general reader with a clear and eminently readable introduction to Berkeley’s works which also challenges standard interpretations of Berkeley’s philosophy.

Author : Bertil Belfrage
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441114785
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to Berkeley written by Bertil Belfrage and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : George Berkeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of George Berkeley written by George Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Berkeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
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Download or read book The Works of George Berkeley: Miscellaneous works. Index, v.1-3 written by George Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Berkeley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
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Download or read book The Works of George Berkeley ... Including Many of His Writings Hitherto Unpublished. With Prefaces, Anntations, His Life and Letters, and an Account of His Philosophy, by A.C. Fraser written by George Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Courtney Weiss Smith
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813938392
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empiricist Devotions written by Courtney Weiss Smith and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a moment in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England before the disciplinary divisions that we inherit today were established, Empiricist Devotions recovers a kind of empiricist thinking in which the techniques and emphases of science, religion, and literature combined and cooperated. This brand of empiricism was committed to particularized scrutiny and epistemological modesty. It was Protestant in its enabling premises and meditative practices. It earnestly affirmed that figurative language provided crucial tools for interpreting the divinely written world. Smith recovers this empiricism in Robert Boyle’s analogies, Isaac Newton’s metaphors, John Locke’s narratives, Joseph Addison’s personifications, Daniel Defoe’s diction, John Gay’s periphrases, and Alexander Pope’s descriptive particulars. She thereby demonstrates that "literary" language played a key role in shaping and giving voice to the concerns of eighteenth-century science and religion alike. Empiricist Devotions combines intellectual history with close readings of a wide variety of texts, from sermons, devotional journals, and economic tracts to georgic poems, it-narratives, and microscopy treatises. This prizewinning book has important implications for our understanding of cultural and literary history, as scholars of the period’s science have not fully appreciated figurative language’s central role in empiricist thought, while scholars of its religion and literature have neglected the serious empiricist commitments motivating richly figurative devotional and poetic texts. Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies