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A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - A Philosophy of How Man Perceives, Learns and Forms Ideas Through Experience (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
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A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - A Philosophy of How Man Perceives, Learns and Forms Ideas Through Experience (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
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George Berkeley's investigation of human epistemology remains one
of the most respected of its time - this edition contains the
treatise in full, complete with the author's preface. One of
Berkeley's most important beliefs was that of immaterialism. The
meaning being that nothing material exists unless it is perceived
by something or someone. Distinct from solipsism - the belief that
only the self exists - Berkeley's view is that material items are
ideas formed by distinct conscious minds; the concept of reality
being simply the summation of shared ideas rather than physical
objects fascinated philosophers of the era. Much of Berkeley's
philosophy is framed by then-new discoveries in the field of
physics. The concepts of color and light thus have a frequent
bearing on the overall thesis; disagreeing with Isaac Newton on the
subject of space, it was later that Berkeley's contrarian opinions
on matters such as calculus and free-thinking gained him further
renown.
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