Předložený soubor esejů – první kniha v češtině věnovaná irskému filosofovi – má za cíl představit čtenáři rozsah Berkeleyho filosofického díla. Najdeme zde články, jež se zabývají kritikou aristotelského pojetí vnímání, jeho interpretací jazyka fyziky, teorií jazykového významu, jeho koncepcí „common sense“, jeho představou já jakožto aktivní síly, ale také jeho teorií poslušnosti v politické oblasti nebo pozdní filosofií spisu Seiris, který se pod vlivem novoplatonismu a hermetického korpusu vyvazuje z mezí idealismu raného období.

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Few people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of the most influential political theorists of the modern age, he was also a composer and writer of opera, a novelist, and a memoirist whose Confessions ranks as one of the most striking works of autobiography ever written. Like many creative thinkers, Rousseau was someone whose restless mind could not help questioning accepted orthodoxies and looking at matters from novel and innovative angles. His 1762 treatise The Social Contract does exactly that. Examining the nature and...