Download or read book George Berkeley written by Tom Jones and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopher In George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the life and work of the preeminent Irish philosopher of the Enlightenment. From his early brilliance as a student and fellow at Trinity College Dublin to his later years as Bishop of Cloyne, Berkeley brought his searching and powerful intellect to bear on the full range of eighteenth-century thought and experience. Jones brings vividly to life the complexities and contradictions of Berkeley’s life and ideas. He advanced a radical immaterialism, holding that the only reality was minds, their thoughts, and their perceptions, without any physical substance underlying them. But he put forward this counterintuitive philosophy in support of the existence and ultimate sovereignty of God. Berkeley was an energetic social reformer, deeply interested in educational and economic improvement, including for the indigenous peoples of North America, yet he believed strongly in obedience to hierarchy and defended slavery. And although he spent much of his life in Ireland, he followed his time at Trinity with years of travel that took him to London, Italy, and New England, where he spent two years trying to establish a university for Bermuda, before returning to Ireland to take up an Anglican bishopric in a predominantly Catholic country. Jones draws on the full range of Berkeley’s writings, from philosophical treatises to personal letters and journals, to probe the deep connections between his life and work. The result is a richly detailed and rounded portrait of a major Enlightenment thinker and the world in which he lived.
Download or read book George Berkeley in America written by Edwin S. Gaustad and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1959-12-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Berkeley, the Irish philosopher and Anglican priest, settled in Newport, Rhode Island, one of the few places in New England that was hospitable to Anglicans. There his lively mind and sympathetic spirit involved him in a variety of interests. This book is an account of an episode of his religious life of colonial New England.
Download or read book The Life of Bishop Berkeley written by John Nicholas Norton and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Berkeley written by David Berman and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1995-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike nearly all studies of Berkeley, this book looks at the full range of his work and links it with his life - focusing in particular on his religious thought. While aiming to present a clear picture of his career, this book breaks new ground on, among other topics, Berkeley'sphilosophical strategy, his account of immortality, his Jacobitism, his emotive theory of religious mysteries, and the motivation of his Siris (1744). Also distinctive is the attention paid to the Irish context of his thought, his symbolic frontispieces and portraits, and recent discoveriesconcerning his life and writings. The Berkeley that emerges from this study is deeper and more human that the usual picture of him as a starry-eyed idealist with every virtue under heaven.
Download or read book The Works of George Berkeley Life and letters written by George Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life and Letters of George Berkeley written by Alexander Campbell Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketch of the Life of George Berkeley Bishop of Cloyne written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Bishop Berkeley Classic Reprint written by John Nicholas Norton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Bishop Berkeley "Of the exquisite grace and beauty of Berkeley's diction, no man accustomed to English composition need to be informed. His works are, beyond dispute, the finest models of philosophical style since Cicero. Perhaps they surpass those of the orator in the wonderful art by which the fullest light is thrown on the most minute and evanescent parts of the most subtile of human conceptions." - Sir James Mackintosh. "So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman." - Atterbury. "When Shaftesbury, in phrases of studied eloquence, was advocating a modified Platonic system, and Bishop Sherlock represented the eloquence of the Church; when Swift's pungent satire ruled in politics, and Pope's finished couplets were the exemplars of poetry; when Sir Robert Walpole's ministry and Queen Caroline's levees were the civic and social features of the day, there moved in the circles of literature, of state, and of religious fellowship, one of those men to whom, by virtue of their guileless spirit and ingenuous minds, their sweet repose of character, gentle manners, and speculative tendency, we instinctively give the name of philosophers." - Tuckerman's Biographical Essays. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Life and Letters of George Berkeley written by Alexander Campbell Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of George Berkeley written by George Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alciphron written by George Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1732 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge written by George Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book LIFE OF BISHOP BERKELEY written by JOHN NICHOLAS. NORTON and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Bishop Berkeley written by John Nicholas Norton and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER NINTH. Mr. Berkeley appears in his character of a Christian Philanthropist--Condition of the British possessions in North America--A crippled Church Efforts for better things--Difficulties to be anticipated--Mr. Berkeley made a Dean--An important scheme developed--The Summer Islands and the College of St. Paul's--Why this location was chosen--Shakespeare's "vext Bermoothes"--The living machinery for the workObjections answered--" Westward the Star of Empire takes its way." E have now reached a stage in Mr. SLM Berkeley's history in which he appears before the world as a Christian philanthropist, who was not only ready to arrange a scheme of benevolence for others to carry into operation, but as one willing and anxious to go forth as the leader of the van, enduring privations and toil for the cause of his Divine Lord. At the time of which we are speaking, the British possessions in North America, extendTHE CHURCH IN AMERICA. 113 ing from the St. Lawrence to the tropics, had risen to great importance, but the interests of the Christian religion had by no means kept pace with the advance of wealth and civilization. It is true, the Church of England had done something, but she was so hampered by the State, that no Bishops had been sent out to take the oversight of the clergy, to administer Confirmation, and to exercise discipline, and hence she failed to accomplish much good; and she was receiving a constant rebuke in the zealous labors of the missionaries of Papal Rome, who, in the French and Spanish colonies, were rearing up their religious institutions, and putting forth every effort to inculcate their peculiar views. Mr. Berkeley had long thought of all this with regret and mortification, and he resolved, by God's help, to do...
Download or read book George Berkeley Religion and Science in the Age of Enlightenment written by Silvia Parigi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Berkeley was considered "the most engaging and useful man in Ireland in the eighteenth century". This hyperbolic statement refers both to Berkeley’s life and thought; in fact, he always considered himself a pioneer called to think and do new things. He was an empiricist well versed in the sciences, an amateur of the mechanical arts, as well as a metaphysician; he was the author of many completely different discoveries, as well as a very active Christian, a zealous bishop and the apostle of the Bermuda project. The essays collected in this volume, written by some leading scholars, aim to reconstruct the complexity of Berkeley’s figure, without selecting "major" works, nor searching for "coherence" at any cost. They will focus on different aspects of Berkeley’s thought, showing their intersections; they will explore the important contributions he gave to various scientific disciplines, as well as to the eighteenth-century philosophical and theological debate. They will highlight the wide influence that his presently most neglected or puzzling books had at the time; they will refuse any anachronistical trial of Berkeley’s thought, judged from a contemporary point of view.
Download or read book De Motu and the Analyst written by G. Berkeley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berkeley's philosophy has been much studied and discussed over the years, and a growing number of scholars have come to the realization that scientific and mathematical writings are an essential part of his philosophical enterprise. The aim of this volume is to present Berkeley's two most important scientific texts in a form which meets contemporary standards of scholarship while rendering them accessible to the modern reader. Although editions of both are contained in the fourth volume of the Works, these lack adequate introductions and do not provide com plete and corrected texts. The present edition contains a complete and critically established text of both De Motu and The Analyst, in addi tion to a new translation of De Motu. The introductions and notes are designed to provide the background necessary for a full understanding of Berkeley's account of science and mathematics. Although these two texts are very different, they are united by a shared a concern with the work of Newton and Leibniz. Berkeley's De Motu deals extensively with Newton's Principia and Leibniz's Specimen Dynamicum, while The Analyst critiques both Leibnizian and Newto nian mathematics. Berkeley is commonly thought of as a successor to Locke or Malebranche, but as these works show he is also a successor to Newton and Leibniz.
Download or read book George Berkeley and Early Modern Philosophy written by Stephen H. Daniel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Daniel presents a study of the philosophy of George Berkeley in the intellectual context of his times, with a particular focus on how, for Berkeley, mind is related to its ideas. Daniel does not assume that thinkers like Descartes, Malebranche, or Locke define for Berkeley the context in which he develops his own thought. Instead, he indicates how Berkeley draws on a tradition that informed his early training and that challenges much of the early modern thought with which he is often associated. Specifically, this book indicates how Berkeley's distinctive treatment of mind (as the activity whereby objects are differentiated and related to one another) highlights how mind neither precedes the existence of objects nor exists independently of them. This distinctive way of understanding the relation of mind and objects allows Berkeley to appropriate ideas from his contemporaries in ways that transform the issues with which he is engaged. The resulting insights--for example, about how God creates the minds that perceive objects--are only now starting to be fully appreciated.
