Alasdair Richmond

Berkeley's 'Principles of Human Knowledge' (eBook, PDF)

A Reader's Guide

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441119841
• Artikelnr.: 38305489

Autorenporträt

Alasdair Richmond is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

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