Berkeley
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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the intersection of perception, reality, and the divine stands George Berkeley — the eighteenth-century Irish philosopher who dared to argue that the material world exists only as ideas in the mind. G. J. Warnock's Berkeley presents a rigorous yet accessible introduction to one of the most provocative thinkers in the Western philosophical tradition, chronicling Berkeley's central arguments against materialism and his famous immaterialist thesis that to be is to be perceived. Warnock, himself a distinguished Oxford philosopher, illustrates the continued relevance of Berkeley's work with precision and clarity, making the abstract accessible without sacrificing intellectual depth. Part of the celebrated Pelican Philosophy Series, this volume situates Berkeley firmly within the empiricist tradition alongside Locke and Hume, while demonstrating how his constructive and critical contributions reshaped modern epistemology and metaphysics. For anyone who has ever questioned the nature of reality, this is the volume that will leave that question gloriously — and productively — unresolved.
Author: G. J. Warnock
Format: Paperback
Published: 1953, Pelican Books (Penguin)
Genre: Philosophy
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the intersection of perception, reality, and the divine stands George Berkeley — the eighteenth-century Irish philosopher who dared to argue that the material world exists only as ideas in the mind. G. J. Warnock's Berkeley presents a rigorous yet accessible introduction to one of the most provocative thinkers in the Western philosophical tradition, chronicling Berkeley's central arguments against materialism and his famous immaterialist thesis that to be is to be perceived. Warnock, himself a distinguished Oxford philosopher, illustrates the continued relevance of Berkeley's work with precision and clarity, making the abstract accessible without sacrificing intellectual depth. Part of the celebrated Pelican Philosophy Series, this volume situates Berkeley firmly within the empiricist tradition alongside Locke and Hume, while demonstrating how his constructive and critical contributions reshaped modern epistemology and metaphysics. For anyone who has ever questioned the nature of reality, this is the volume that will leave that question gloriously — and productively — unresolved.