Selections from Berkeley: With an Introduction and Notes, for the Use of Students in the Universities

Selections From Berkeley: With An Introduction And Notes, For The Use Of Students In The Universities by George Berkeley. This volume, edited by Alexander Campbell Fraser, provides a curated set of Berkeley's writings on epistemology, perception, and metaphysics, accompanied by Fraser's introduction and notes. It includes discussions of perception, matter, and the external world; the Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge; Berkeley's Vision writings including An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision and The Theory of Visual Language Vindicated and Explained; extracts from Siris; and the Divine Visual Language dialogues. The Introduction frames Berkeley's project as a training text for modern metaphysics and metaphysical psychology, presenting his central claim that unconscious substrata such as matter cannot exist independently of mind, and that the material world is derived from perception and divine guidance. The Supplementary materials place Berkeley's ideas in relation to Hume's scepticism and Kant's critical philosophy. The volume functions as a textbook for university study, inviting students to test Berkeley's premises in the context of early modern philosophy and to compare his ideas with later debates on knowledge, reality, and God.