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A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

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  • Publisher: Alpha Edition
  • 14 x 21.6 x 0.7 cm

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A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (commonly called Treatise when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 work, in English, by Anglo-Irish Empiricist philosopher George Berkeley. This book largely seeks to refute the claims made by Berkeley's contemporary John Locke about the nature of human perception. Whilst, like all the Empiricist philosophers, both Locke and Berkeley agreed that we are having experiences, regardless of whether material objects exist, Berkeley sought to prove that the outside world (the world which causes the ideas one has within one's mind) is also composed solely of ideas. Berkeley did this by suggesting that "Ideas can only resemble Ideas" - the mental ideas that we possess can only resemble other ideas (not material objects) and thus the external world consists not of physical form, but rather of ideas. This world is (or, at least, was) given logic and regularity by some other force, which Berkeley concludes is God.
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge and Philosophical Commentaries by George Berkeley: Transcribed from the Manuscript and Edited with an Introduction by George H. Thomas, Explanatory Notes
Philosophical Commentaries by George Berkeley: Transcribed from the Manuscript and Edited with an Introduction by George H. Thomas, Explanatory NotesA Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

  • Title

    A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

  • Author

    George Berkeley

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Alpha Edition

  • Published

    December 2017

  • Weight

    155g

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 0.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9789386874146

  • ISBN-10

    9386874148

  • Eden Code

    4746935

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