A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge ...Kenneth Winkler's esteemed edition of Berkeley's Principles is based on the second edition (London, 1734), the last one published in Berkeley's lifetime. Life other members of Hackett's philosophical classics series, it features editorial elements found to be of particular value to students and their teachers: analytical table of contents; chronology of the author's life; selected bibliography; note on the text; glossary; and index. |
Contents
Dedicatory Epistle | 3 |
The distinction between primary and secondary qualities 915 | 9 |
That is they do not work at all And my earlier | 15 |
Of the Principles of Human Knowledge Part I | 23 |
we cannot even conceive of an object | 24 |
But God is the cause of ideas of sense He produces | 34 |
It is hard to believe the whole world is mistaken 5455 | 54 |
If immaterialism is true the complexity of plants | 60 |
There are other senses in which matter may exist 6781 | 67 |
Objections on the part of religion S8284 | 82 |
Sources of mistakes about the mind 143144 | 84 |
Useless questions banished | 85 |
Glossary | 89 |
Matter is the main support of atheism and fatalism 9296 | 92 |
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A. A. Luce absolute abstract general ideas abstract ideas absurd acknowledge Alciphron answer appear argument Aristotle atheism attention Baruch Spinoza believe Berkeley thinks Berkeley's betwixt color comprehend conceive consider contradiction corporeal substance demonstration deny difficulties distinct doctrine of abstract effect efficient cause Essay evident example explain extension figure finite finite extension follows frame George Berkeley human ideas of sense ideas or sensations images imagine impossible imprinted inconsistent indirect perception inert infinitely divisible innumerable knowledge language laws of nature likewise Locke Locke's manner material substance materialist meaning motion natural philosophy Nicolas Malebranche objects of sense observed occasion particular triangle perceived by sense perception philosophers physical objects plain possible principles produce reason relation René Descartes second edition secondary qualities Sect seems selective attention sensible qualities signified skepticism Socinians soever soul speculative subsist substratum suppose thought tion true truth understand wherein whereof words
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Page xlii - I acknowledge it does so, the word idea not being used in common discourse to signify the several combinations of sensible qualities, which are called things: and it is certain that any expression which varies from the familiar use of language, will seem harsh and ridiculous. But this doth not concern the truth of the proposition, which in other words is no more than to say, we are fed and clothed with those things which we perceive immediately by our senses.