A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

Name: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: George Berkeley
ISBN: 9781452674681

Author: George Berkeley

Narrator: Jonathan Cowley

Unabridged: 3 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/30/2011

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Epistemology, History & Surveys

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Synopsis

First published in 1710, George Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge is a seminal contribution to Empiricist philosophy. Making the bold assertion that the physical world consists only of ideas and thus does not exist outside the mind, this work establishes Berkeley as the founder of the immaterialist school of thought. A major influence on such later philosophers as David Hume and Immanuel Kant, Berkeley's ideas have played a role in such diverse fields as mathematics and metaphysics and continue to spark debate today.

About George Berkeley

George Berkeley (1685-1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley, was one of the three great British empiricist philosophers. Born near Thomastown, Ireland, he was educated at Kilkenny College and attended Trinity College in Dublin, where he remained as a tutor and lecturer after the competion of his Master's degree in 1707. In 1734, he was appointed Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland. He is best known for his doctrine of immaterialism, the idea that reality has no material existence outside of the mind. Berkeley's major works include An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jon on October 02, 2023

Deep end of the pool here! I know I missed much of what Berkeley was trying to say...but his ideas sound like a combination of Zen koans and quantum mechanics - there is an observer who observes everything at all times - it is that continuous observation that lets us (as individuals) observe what we......more

Goodreads review by Xeon on January 12, 2023

"In vain do we extend our view into the heavens, and pry into the entrails of the earth, in vain do we consult the writings of learned men, and trace the dark footsteps of antiquity; we need only draw the curtain of words, to behold the fairest tree of knowledge, whose fruit is excellent, and within......more

Goodreads review by Roy on June 02, 2016

George Berkeley was an English philosopher in the empiricist school. In this short treatise, he put forward many of his most influential ideas, including his critique of intellectual abstraction, and the dependence of reality on perception. Unlike many other philosophers I've come across, Berkeley is......more

Goodreads review by Dan on May 06, 2021

As an empiricist, Berkeley stayed with perception and went against abstractions and concepts. Ideas are all that matter and they connect only with other ideas. Reality is nothing more than an active spirit perceiving. When we turn our back to things (i.e. ideas) they disappear; or maybe not because......more

Goodreads review by Jim on May 08, 2016

Berkeley was such and intelligent man that it's absolutely impossible to imagine that he was actually a Bishop!!!......more