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A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. E-book. Formato EPUB George Berkeley - E-Bookarama, 2025 -
Published in 1710, George Berkeley’s "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge" presents a form of Metaphysical Idealism which asserts that there are two kinds of reality, idea and spirit. Ideas are real because they can be perceived. Spirit is real because it can have ideas, and because it can perceive them.Berkeley argues that ideas are derived from physical and mental perceptions, from memory, and from imagination. The existence of an idea depends on its being able to be perceived. An idea does not exist unless it is perceived.According to Berkeley, "esse est percipi" ("to be is to be perceived"). The existence of an idea cannot be separated from its being perceived. If an idea or object is not perceived, then it does not exist.George Berkeley, known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland), was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others).
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. E-book. Formato EPUB George Berkeley - E-Bookarama, 2025 -
First published in 1713, "Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous" is a book on metaphysics and idealism written by George Berkeley. Taking the form of a dialogue, the book was written as a response to the criticism Berkeley experienced after publishing "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge."In "Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous," Berkeley defends the view that matter does not exist, that the universe contains minds or spirits but no realm of atoms and molecules. Berkeley argues that things that are normally considered material objects—stones, trees, shoes, apples—have no existence outside the minds and experiences of conscious beings. Like an object in a dream, a stone has no existence outside consciousness. If all conscious beings were to stop perceiving some sensible object—the moon, for example—that object would cease to exist. Although Berkeley’s book owes its philosophical greatness to the many important arguments that are presented in support of the main thesis, the work is also notable for the simplicity and clarity with which the ideas are conveyed. The ideas are presented in the form of a dialogue between Hylas, a materialist, and Philonous, the representative of Berkeley’s idealism.