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Bloomsbury companion to Berkeley /
"Due to his theory of 'immaterialism' and Schopenhauer's regard of him as the 'father of idealism', George Berkeley (1685-1753) is one of the most important thinkers of the Early Modern period. The Bloomsbury Companion to Berkeley is a comprehensive one volume reference...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2017.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury companions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Abbreviations; Contributors; Introduction; Part One Berkeley's Life and Importance; 1 George Berkeley's Biography; Notes; 2 Berkeley's Bermuda Project in Context; Education, commerce and the public good; The Rhode Island experience; The collapse of the Bermuda Project; Notes; 3 Berkeley's Correspondence; Berkeley's correspondence; Berkeley's correspondents; Minor correspondences and letters lost; Notes; 4 Berkeley and Twentieth-Century Realist-Anti-Realist Controversies; Section I: Background and plan.
- Section II: Berkeley's 'master argument'Section III: The Kantian-conceptualist route to idealism; Section IV: The empiricist inheritance; Section V: The primacy of the first-person perspective; Section VI: The impossibility of indirect realism; Section VII: Two modern Berkelians; Section VIII: Conclusion; Note; Part Two Berkeley's Major Works; 5 Atomism in Berkeley's Theory of Vision; Introduction; Berkeley's reply to his critics; The atomistic approach; Beyond atomism; Notes; 6 Berkeley's Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge.
- Introduction: Against the 'Doctrine of Abstraction'Main text; 7 Three Dialogues between Hylas, Philonous and the Sceptic; Notes; 8 The Mystery of Goodness in Berkeley'sPassive Obedience; Introduction; Historical background (1707-1708); Berkeley's approach to moral issues 1707-1712; Theological fundamentalism (1712); Notes; 9 De Motu: Berkeley's Philosophy of Science; Introduction; Natural philosophy and metaphysics; Berkeley and Newton; Absolute motion and absolute space; Berkeley as anticipating Ernst Mach; Notes; 10 Alciphron.
- Or the Minute Philosopher Berkeley's Redefinition of Free-ThinkingThe circumstances of the work's publication; Minute philosophy
- redefining the notion of free- thinking; Against Mandeville's naturalism; The fallacy of Shaftesbury's moral sense theory; Religious interpretation of experience; The refusal of Browne's negative theology; Social significance of religion; The defence of the Scripture; God's grace and human freedom; The Alciphron and the question of the development of Berkeley's philosophy; Notes.
- 11 Berkeley's Querist'Hints ... What Is to Be Done in this Critical State of our Affairs' or Proposals for a Hyperborean Eutopia?Berkeley's radical solution to Ireland's problems; Berkeley's economic principles; Persuading the recalcitrant; The National Bank and the Irish Parliament; Aftermath and The Querist revised; Notes; 12 Berkeley's Siris, an Interpretation; Reading Siris; Tar as medicine; The chemistry of life; Science and its problem; Physiology; Ancient lore and cosmological vision; Berkeley, new and old; Notes; Part Three Berkeley in Context; 13 Berkeley and Descartes.