George Berkeley: a study of his life and philosophy
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1. Verfasser: Wild, John Daniel 1902-1972 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Russell & Russell 1962
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Beschreibung:Contents: Part I: The revelation of the concrete. I. The new philosophy. Trinity College ; The philosophical societies ; The Commonplace Book and the treatise -- II. The Commonplace Book. Methodology ; Book I. Philosophy of ideas (Subjectivism) ; Book II. The dialectic of. the self ; Book III. Applications of the new principle in natural science -- III. Berkeley and his predecessors. Locke ; Descartes ; Spinoza ; Plato and Platonism ; The Cambridge Platonists ; Note bn John Sergeant -- Part II: Concrete and abstract reason : the early system. IV. The appeal to the concrete (New theory of vision). The problem ; The "concrete" as the immediate ; The vulgar error ; The new theory of vision ; The "trend" of the new theory ; Critical comment -- V. The concrete versus the abstract (The treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge). Part I of the "Treatise" ; "Pure thought" : the letters to Leclerc ; Two misconceptions of Berkeley's polemic ; The polemic against abstract general ideas ; Legitimate abstraction (Considering) ; Language as the basis of illegitimate abstraction ; The meaning.of Berkeley's polemic -- VI. Abstract ethics and religion : mathematical morality (The passive obedience) ; "Reason" in religion (The early sermons) ; Spiritistic rationalism -- VII. The conquest of the concrete (The three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous). Spiritism ; The critique of spiritism ; Phenomenalism ; "Causal" perception ; Spiritism versus spirit ; The result -- VIII. Beyond the absolute. Life in London. The Annus Mirabilis ; The Guardian ; "Narrowness" of soul ; Fénelon's demonstration ; Life ; Death -- Part III: Scepticism and faith : the emergence of the practical. IX. Practical philosophy. Berkeley and Malebranche ; Practical philosophy ; Advice to Tories -- X. The critique of natural science (De motu). The Grand Tour ; The relativity of science ; The practical view of science ; Philosophia prima --
XI. Plans for the new world. The ruin of Great Britain ; Bermuda ; Vanessa's legacy ; The Dean of Derry ; Courts and ministers -- XII. The new world. Samuel Johnson ; Newport sermons ; Failure - XIII. Concrete ethics and religion (The Alciphron) ; The critique of mathematical ethics ; Ethical systems ; Shaftesbury ; Concfete ethics -- XIV. The critique of mathematics (The Analyst). The sermon preached before the society for the propagation of the gospel ; The fruits of idealism ; The early criticism of the continental calculus (De l'Hospital) ; The later criticism. Newton's fluxions ; Suggestions ; Mathematics and meaning : the critique of pragmatism -- Part IV: Philosophia prima : the "system" of the Siris. XV. The Bishop of Cloyne. The querist ; Free-thinking and the Plague ; The meaning of the Reformation (Letter to Sir John James) ; The background of the Siris : Credo ut intellegam -- XVI. The Siris. The sources of the Siris ; The pre-Socratics ; Plato and Aristotle ; Neo-Platonism : the phase of transcendence ; The De Mundo ; Ocellus Lucanus ; Timaeus of Locrus ; The Chaldean oracles ; The Hermetic writings ; The Neo-Platonic system ; Plotinus ; The philosophy of the transcendent ; The Trinity -- XVII. The meaning of Berkeley. Berkeley's philosophical development -- Appendix. Three unpublished sermons. Sermon I, I Timothy: iii, 16 ; Sermon II, I Timothy: iii, 16 ; Sermon III, I John: ii, 25
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