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A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 4.99A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge is a book that largely seeks to counter the claims made by his contemporary philosophers about the nature of human perception. The author has asserted that there is an outer world that largely consists of ideas and not of physical forms. He goes on to conclude that this world owes... more...
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 4.99An extension of Berkleys ideas, the work presents his philosophy in the form of dialogues. The author has presented arguments to prove the existence of god and that the material world consists completely of ideas and not physical objects. He reiterates that there is a diety that maintains order and arrangement in the world around us. more...
The Querist Part Three
ReadHowYouWant 2006; US$ 3.99With a humanistic outlook, the author discusses the conditions of his fellow-beings by posing questions to the human intellect. The book consists, completely, of around 600 thought-provoking questions that are designed to prick the conscience of the readers and to challenge those in authority. more...
Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues
Oxford University Press, UK 1996; US$ 8.99Berkeley's idealism started a revolution in philosophy. As one of the great empiricist thinkers he not only influenced British philosophers from Hume to Russell and the logical positivists in the twentieth century, he also set the scene for the continental idealism of Hegel and even the philosophy of Marx.This edition of Berkeley's two key... more...
Principles of Human Knowledge
Penguin Books Ltd 1988; Not AvailableOne of the greatest British philosophers, Bishop Berkeley (1685?1753) was the founder of the influential doctrine of Immaterialism ? the belief that there is no reality outside the mind, and that the existence of material objects depends upon their being perceived. The Principles of Human Knowledge eloquently outlines this philosophical concept, and... more...
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 1979; US$ 5.95"A model of what an edition of a philosohic text for an introductory level should be. Introduction does an admirable job of putting Berkeley's thought in the intellectual context of its time." --Gary C. Hatfield more...
Drei Dialoge zwischen Hylas und Philonous
Felix Meiner Verlag 2005; US$ 20.38Hauptbeschreibung 1713 erschien in London "Drei Dialoge zwischen Hylas und Philonous" von George Berkeley. Letzterer, der Geistesfreund, verficht den ontologischen Grundsatz Berkeleys, daß nichts existiert außer denkenden Wesen und Ideen "in the mind": Existenz ist Wahrgenommenwerden (percipi) oder Wahrnehmen (percipere). Hylas vertritt Auffassungen,... more...
Eine Abhandlung über die Prinzipien der menschlichen Erkenntnis
Felix Meiner Verlag 2004; US$ 10.68Hauptbeschreibung In der "Abhandlung über die Prinzipien der menschlichen Erkenntnis" entwickelt Berkeley die Lehre vom Immaterialismus. Die Wahrnehmung der Dinge mit den Sinnen ist für ihn die Basis allen Seins, den Geist versteht Berkeley als das aktive Prinzip. Über kaum einen Philosophen von Rang haben Zeitgenossen und Nachwelt ein so zwiespältiges... more...
The Empiricists
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 16.95This volume includes the major works of the British Empiricists, philosophers who sought to derive all knowledge from experience. All essays are complete except that of Locke, which Professor Richard Taylor of Brown University has skillfully abridged. more...
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Start Publishing LLC 2012; US$ 0.99First 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... more...









