Author: Leigh and SothebyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Valuable Library of the Late Right Rev. Dr. Berkeley, Lord Bishop of Cloyne, Together with the Libraries of His Son and Grandson, the Late Rev. George Berkeley, D.D. Prebendary of Canterbury, and the Late George Monk Berkeley, Esq
Author: Leigh and SothebyThe Other Bishop Berkeley
Author: Costică BrădățanPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 9780823226931
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Costica Bradatan proposes a new way of looking at the influential 18th-century Anglo-Irish empiricist philosopher. He approaches Berkeley's thought from the standpoint of its roots, rather than from how this thought has been viewed since his time. In Bradatan's portrait, we can see two Berkeleys, quite distinct from one another. This other Berkeley read and wrote alchemical books, designed utopian projects, and searched for Happy Islandsand the Earthly Paradise.His new attitude toward the material world echoed the dualistic theology of the Cathars. The thinking of the other Bishop Berkeley was rooted in Platonic, mystical, and sometimes esoteric traditions, and he saw philosophy as, above all, a kind of salvation, to be practiced as a way of life. What Bradatan uncovers is a much richer, true-to-life Berkeley, a more profound and spectacular thinker.This book will interest scholars working in a wide variety of fields, from philosophy and the history of ideas to comparative literature, utopian studies, religious and medieval studies, and critical theory.
A Catalogue of the Valuable Library of the Late Right Rev. Dr. Berkeley, Lord Bishop of Cloyne, Together with the Libraries of His Son and Grandson, the Late Rev. George Berkeley ... and the Late George Monk Berkeley ... which Will be Sold by Auction, by Leigh and Sotheby, Booksellers ... on Monday, June 6, 1796 and the Five Following Days
Author: George BerkeleyPope and Berkeley
Author: T. JonesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230511023
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The first study dedicated to the relationship between Alexander Pope and George Berkeley, this book undertakes a comparative reading of their work on the visual environment, economics and providence, challenging current ideas of the relationship between poetry and philosophy in early eighteenth-century Britain. It shows how Berkeley's idea that the phenomenal world is the language of God, learnt through custom and experience, can help to explain some of Pope's conservative sceptical arguments, and also his virtuoso poetic techniques.
Recovering Bishop Berkeley
Author: S. BreuningerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230106463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Through a close analysis of key texts and the larger historical contexts within which they were composed, this study explores George Berkeley's engagement with the social and economic threats facing Ireland and Britain, highlighting his belief that virtue and religion could play crucial roles in alleviating these problems.
George Berkeley
Author: Tom JonesPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691217483
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
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.
George Berkeley (Routledge Revivals)
Author: David BermanPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 131781701X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The material reprinted in this two-volume set, first published in 1989, covers the first eighty-five years in responses to George Berkeley’s writings. David Berman identifies several key waves of eighteenth-century criticism surrounding Berkeley’s philosophies, ranging from hostile and discounted, to valued and defended. The first volume includes an account of the life of Berkeley by J. Murray and key responses from 1711 to 1748, whilst the second volume covers the years between 1745 and 1796. This fascinating reissue illustrates the breadth and diversity of the early reaction to Berkeley’s philosophies, and will help students and academics form a clear image of both Berkeley’s work and his reputation through the eyes of his contemporaries.
Morals, the Market, and History
Author: Scott Christopher BreuningerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Existentia
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description