Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous / George Berkeley ; edited, with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams.
By: Berkeley, George.
Contributor(s): Adams, Robert Merrihew.
Material type: BookPublisher: Indianapolis : Hackett, 1979Description: xxxii, 105 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0915144611.Subject(s): Idealism | SoulDDC classification: 192Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 192 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 24/01/2022 | 00054442 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A model of what an edition of a philosohic text for an introductory level should be. Introduction does an admirable job of putting Berkeley's thought in the intellectual context of its time. --Gary C. Hatfield
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Part 1 Introductory Material
- How to Use this Book
- Editor's Introduction
- 1 Why read the Dialogues?
- 2 Berkeley's Life
- 3 Synopsis of the Dialogues
- 4 Berkeley's Metaphysical System
- 5 The Main Arguments
- 6 Berkeley's Philosophical Purposes
- 7 Berkeley's Intellectual Antecedents
- 8 Special Topics: Pyrrhonism
- Substance
- Science
- 9 The Relation between the Dialogues and the Principles
- The Text Printed in this Edition
- Bibliography and Further Reading
- Analysis of the Dialogues
- Part 2 The Text
- Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
- Preface
- Dialogue I
- Dialogue II
- Dialogue III
- Part 3 Glossary, Notes, and Index
- Glossary
- Notes to the Dialogues
- Index