Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (Oxford Philosophical Texts) - Hardcover

Berkeley, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198751486 ISBN 13: 9780198751489

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

First published in 1713, this work was designed as a vivid and persuasive presentation of the remarkable picture of reality that Berkeley had first presented two years earlier in his Principles of Human Knowledge. His central claim there, as here, was that physical things consist of nothing but ideas in minds--that the world is not material but mental. Berkeley uses this thesis as the ground for a new argument for the existence of God, and the dialogue form enables him to raise and respond to many of the natural objections to his position. The text printed in this volume is that of the 1734 edition of the Dialogues.

About this title

From the Publisher

Library of Liberal Arts title.

About the Author

George Berkeley, also known as Bishop Berkeley, was an influential Irish clergyman and philosopher. He was chiefly reputed as the originator of the modern school of idealism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198751486
• ISBN 13: 9780198751489
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Dancy Jonathan