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A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
George Berkeley
Edited by Jonathan Dancy
248 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-875161-8
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Paperback
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29 January 1998
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- Part of new important series
- Uses the standard edition of the text with small corrections to bring it in line with Berkeleys original edition.
- Includes new editorial material specially written for the first-year student.
- Explains Berkeleys work and philosophical arguments: one of the trickier subjects covered in most first-year courses is here made lucid and comprehensible.
- Pedagogical features unique to this edition:
- a substantial, clear, readable introduction covering Berkeleys life and thought and discussing the text generally;
- a feature on How to Use this Book;
- a comprehensive Bibliography and Further Reading section designed for the student reader;
- analysis of the Principles, outlining the main points in each paragraph of the text;
- glossary covering specialist and old-fashioned words in Berkeleys text;
- endnotes covering the text in detail.
- Includes the BerkeleyJohnson Correspondence.
- Jonathan Dancy is an eminent philosopher and the author of various other student textbooks.
- Also available, edited by Dancy in a uniform edition: Berkeleys Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous.
The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive introduction by a leading specialist, giving the student detailed critical guidance on the intellectual context of the work and the structure and philosophical importance of the main arguments. Endnotes are supplied which provide further commentary on the arguments and explain unfamiliar references and terminology, and a full bibliography and index are also
included.
The series aims to build up a definitive corpus of key texts in the Western philosophical tradition, which will form a reliable and enduring resource for students and teachers alike.
In his Principles of Human Knowledge Berkeley makes the striking claim that physical things consist of nothing but ideas, and so do not exist outside the mind. This establishes Berkeley as the founder of the idealist tradition in philosophy. Berkeley argues vigorously that once we correct our understanding of the physical, we can find a new proof of the existence of God, refute sceptical attacks on human knowledge, and resolve many difficulties and paradoxes raised by the advance of science.
The text printed in this
volume is the 1734 edition of the Principles which is generally agreed to represent Berkeley's mature thought. Also included are the four important letters between George Berkeley and Samuel Johnson, written in 1729-30. The text is supplemented by a comprehensive introduction which looks at the structure and main arguments of the text, as well as discussing Berkeley's life, influences, and general philosophy. In addition the volume includes an analysis of the text, a glossary, detailed notes, and a full bibliography with guidance on further reading.
This new edition of Berkeley's most famous work, published alongside his other masterpiece, the Three Dialogues (also edited by Jonathan Dancy) provides the student with a thorough introduction to the central ideas of
one of the world's greatest philosophers.Readership: First year undergraduates taking courses in Philosophy, History of Philosophy, and Berkeley. More advanced students taking courses in epistemology will also find this of use, as will teachers and scholars in the area.
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George Berkeley Edited by Jonathan Dancy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading
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Part 1: Introductory Material
How to Use this Book
Editor's Introduction
1: Preamble
2: Berkeley's Life
3: The Target (or, What Berkeley didn't Believe)
4: Berkeley's Metaphysical Picture
5: What Happens in the Principles?
6: The Arguments of Principles 1-24
7: Berkeley's Attack on the Doctrine of Abstract Ideas
8: Abstract Ideas in the Principles
9: The Existence of God
10: Physical Reality
11: Scepticism
12: Berkeley and the Progress of Science
13: The Nature of Spirits
14: Berkeley's Intellectual Antecedents
15: The Berkeley-Johnson Correspondence
The Text Printed in this Edition; Bibliography and Further Reading; Analysis of the Principles
Part 2: The Texts
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Preface
Introduction
On the Principles of Human Knowledge Part I
The Berkeley-Johnson Correspondence
Johnson to Berkeley, 10 September 1729
Berkeley to Johnson, 25 November 1729
Johnson to Berkeley , 5 February 1730
Berkeley to Johnson , 24 March 1730
Part 3: Glossary, Notes, and Index
Glossary
Notes to the Principles
Notes to the Berkeley-Johnson Correspondence
Index
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