George Berkeley (1685-1753) es, junto con Locke y Hume, uno de los tres famosos empiristas británicos. Es conocido por su idealismo, elaborado a partir de su propuesta inmaterialista, con el que planteó una novedosa manera de entender el...
George Berkeley nació en Dysert, Irlanda, el 12 de marzo de 1685. Miembro de una familia noble, recibió su educación en el Kilkenny College y en el Trinity College de Dublín, donde se tituló como profesor de griego y...
Tratado sobre los principios del conocimiento humano (1710) es la obra más importante y sistemática de Berkeley. Pertenece al segundo período de la vida del autor el de los viajes y las grandes empresas y fue redactado durante su esta...
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (commonly called Treatise when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 work, in English, by Irish Empiricist philosopher...
Berkeleys Principles: Expanded and Explained includes the entire classical text of the Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge in bold font, a running commentary blended seamlessly into the text in regular font and analytic summaries of each...
Berkeley'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 continenta...
George Berkeley (1685-1753) was a university teacher, a missionary, and later a Church of Ireland bishop. The over-riding objective of his long philosophical career was to counteract objections to religious belief that resulted from new philosophies assoc...
This volume sets Berkeley's philosophy in its historical context by providing selections from; first, works that deeply influenced Berkeley as he formed his main doctrines; second, works that illuminate the philosophical climate in which those doctrines...
"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
Whether viewed as extreme skepticism or enlightened common sense, the writings of Berkeley are a major influence on modern philosophy. Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was one of the great British empirical philosophers. He believed that the existence of mater...
Kenneth Winkler's esteemed edition of Berkeley's Principles is based on the second edition (London, 1734), the last one published in Berkeley's lifetime.