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Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

By George Berkeley
Narrated by: Ray Childs
Unabridged — 4 hours, 36 minutes
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Narrated by: Ray Childs
Unabridged — 4 hours, 36 minutes
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Berkeley uses the Socratic mode of inquiry in Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous to question fundamental beliefs about knowledge and reality. These dialogues are between Hylas (whose name is derived from the ancient Greek word for matter) and Philonous, whose name means "lover of mind".





The new physical sciences developed in the 17th century supported the materialism proposed by Thomas Hobbes and several other philosophers. This worldview proclaimed that all of reality consists of n...