A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

by George Berkeley, Sheba Blake

Overview

The text printed in this volume is the 1734 edition of George Berkeley's "Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge" in which he argues that physical things consist of nothing but ideas, and so do not exist outside the mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783965442771
Publisher:	Sheba Blake Publishing
Publication date:	03/31/2019
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	59
File size:	162 KB

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Table of Contents

Part 1: Introductory MaterialHow to Use this BookEditor's Introduction1. Preamble2. Berkeley's Life3. The Target (or, What Berkeley didn't Believe)4. Berkeley's Metaphysical Picture5. What Happens in the Principles? 6. The Arguments of Principles 1-247. Berkeley's Attack on the Doctrine of Abstract Ideas8. Abstract Ideas in the Principles9. The Existence of God10. Physical Reality11. Scepticism12. Berkeley and the Progress of Science13. The Nature of Spirits14. Berkeley's Intellectual Antecedents15. The Berkeley-Johnson CorrespondenceThe Text Printed in this Edition; Bibliography and Further Reading; Analysis of the PrinciplesPart 2: The TextsA Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human KnowledgePrefaceIntroductionOn the Principles of Human Knowledge Part IThe Berkeley-Johnson CorrespondenceJohnson to Berkeley, 10 September 1729Berkeley to Johnson, 25 November 1729Johnson to Berkeley , 5 February 1730Berkeley to Johnson , 24 March 1730Part 3: Glossary, Notes, and IndexGlossaryNotes to the PrinciplesNotes to the Berkeley-Johnson CorrespondenceIndex