three dialogues hylas philonous edited von berkeley george (3 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. pp.xxx, 113p some pencilled annotations pbk.

paperbound, 12mo 288 pp. good condition (clean, minor traces of use).

Sewn as issued, printed wrappers in colour, fine. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. 8vo. vi + 186 pp. With index. "The Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713) were designed as a vivid and accessible presentation of the remarkable picture of reality that Berkeley had first presented three years earlier, in his Principles of Human Knowledge. His striking claim there, as here, was that physical things consist of nothing but ideas in minds. Berkeley uses this thesis as the ground for a new argument for the existence of God, and the dialogue form enables him to raise and respond to many of the natural objections to his position. The text printed in this volume is that of the 1734 edition of the Dialogues, generally agreed to represent Berkeley's mature thought. It is supplemented by a comprehensive introduction which looks in detail at the structure and main arguments of the work." (Oxford Philosophical Texts.).