This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.
This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as wel...
Deeply original, inspiring to some, abhorrent to others, George Berkeley s philosophy of immaterialism is still influential three hundred years after the publication of his most widely read book, "Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. "Berkeley published the"Dialogues"becauseof theunenthusiastic reception of his"Principles of Human Knowledge "in 1710." "He hoped the use of the""dialogue format would win a more favorable hearing, but unfortunately for Berkeley, the response was every bit as scathing as the reception of his previous work. In recent decades, Berkeley s work has been...
Deeply original, inspiring to some, abhorrent to others, George Berkeley s philosophy of immaterialism is still influential three hundred years after ...
In An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision George Berkeley weaves a theory that depends on Gods existence, and is shockingly difficult to refute. The problems he poses are immensely difficult, and still being answered.
George Berkeley was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism". This theory denies the existence of material substance and instead contends that familiar objects like tables and chairs are only ideas in the minds of perceivers, and as a result cannot exist without being perceived. Thus, as Berkeley famously...
In An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision George Berkeley weaves a theory that depends on Gods existence, and is shockingly difficult to refute. The...
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge is a 1710 work by the Irish Empiricist philosopher George Berkeley. This book largely seeks to refute the claims made by his contemporary John Locke about the nature of human perception. While both Locke and Berkeley, like all the Empiricist philosophers, agreed that there was an outside world and that it was this world which caused the ideas one has within one's mind; Berkeley sought to prove that outside world was also composed solely of ideas. Berkeley did this by suggesting that -Ideas can only resemble Ideas- - the mental ideas that...
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge is a 1710 work by the Irish Empiricist philosopher George Berkeley. This book largely seeks to...
