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Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous / George Berkeley ; edited, with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams.

By: Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.
Contributor(s): Adams, Robert Merrihew.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Indianapolis : Hackett, 1979Description: xxxii, 105 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0915144611.Subject(s): Idealism | SoulDDC classification: 192
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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

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