The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley is a compendious examination of a large number of topics in the philosophy of George Berkeley (1685–1753), Anglican bishop of Cloyne, the famous idealist and most ...illustrious Irish philosopher. Berkeley is best known for his denial of the existence of material substance and his insistence that the only things that exist in the universe are minds (including God) and their ideas. But Berkeley was a polymath who contributed to a variety of different disciplines, not well distinguished from philosophy in the eighteenth century, including the theory and psychology of vision, the nature and functioning of language, the debate over infinitesimals in mathematics, political philosophy, economics, chemistry (including his favored panacea, tar water), and theology. This volume includes contributions from thirty-four expert commentators on Berkeley’s philosophy, some of whom provide a state-of-the-art account of his philosophical achievements and some of whom place his philosophy in historical context by comparing and contrasting it with the views of his contemporaries (including Mandeville, Collier, and Edwards), as well as with philosophers who preceded him (such as Descartes, Locke, Malebranche, and Leibniz) and others who succeeded him (such as Hume, Reid, Kant, and Shepherd).
Introduction Johnson, Ikea M
Journal of comparative literature & aesthetics,
10/2021, Letnik:
44, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
It is an old notion to contemplate the immaterial essence of the mind. To evaluate how the matrixial realms of (sub)consciousness contribute to meta-legality, time, space, and being is a topic of ...momentous concern. Looking into the development of the arts, humanities, and the places they hold in socio-political formations gives way to better understand the power of comparative literature and aesthetics. George Berkeley is often considered a great innovator of immaterial discourse. Though it is not needed to dig up his discourse to build momentum for this special issue, it proves wise to consider his work as it is throughout this essay collection.
Ideas and mechanism Wilson, Margaret Dauler
2014., 20140701, 2014, 1999, Letnik:
75
eBook
For more than three decades, Margaret Wilson's essays on early modern philosophy have influenced scholarly debate. Many are considered classics in the field and remain as important today as they were ...when they were first published. Until now, however, they have never been available in book form and some have been particularly difficult to find. This collection not only provides access to nearly all of Wilson's most significant work, but also demonstrates the continuity of her thought over time. These essays show that Wilson possesses a keen intelligence, coupled with a fearlessness in tackling the work of early modern philosophers as well as the writing of modern commentators. Many of the pieces collected here respond to philosophical issues of continuing importance.
The thirty-one essays gathered here deal with some of the best known early philosophers, including Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Spinoza, and Berkeley. As this collection shows, Wilson is a demanding critic. She repeatedly asks whether the philosophers' arguments were adequate to the problems they were trying to solve and whether these arguments remain compelling today. She is not afraid to engage in complex argument but, at the same time, her own writing remains clear and fresh.Ideas and Mechanismis an essential collection of work by one of the leading scholars of our era.
Originally published in 1999.
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For decades scholars have argued that there was a heated argumentative exchange between the bishop of Cork and Ross, Peter Browne, and the bishop of Cloyne, George Berkeley. Thus, they have unduly ...reduced Browne to a mere adversary of Berkeley. They also thereby distorted the perception of the Irish intellectual milieu in the seventeenth / eighteenth century and the way its participants influenced one another. Contrary to this controversy-reading I establish how ill-supported the prevailing narrative of the relationship between the bishops of Cork and Cloyne is. This, in turn, allows me to demonstrate that the discussion about the problem of divine analogy in seventeenth / eighteenth century Ireland was embedded in a larger context, which has hitherto been too little appreciated. I will illustrate this point by demonstrating that the two bishops not only reacted to William King's solution to the problem of divine analogy, but that they did so by accepting his 'resemblance-requirement'. That is, King's notion that divine representation requires resemblance. This indicates how the discussion about the problem of divine analogy in seventeenth / eighteenth century Ireland was influenced by the way these churchmen thought about the relation of resemblance, representation, and knowledge more generally.
George Berkeley is usually not discussed in the canonical histories of modern aesthetics. Similarly, Berkeley scholars do not seem to have paid attention to his possible contribution to modern ...aesthetics. Berkeley exploited certain theoretical potentials of the emerging aesthetic experience that was invented and formulated especially by his contemporaries like Joseph Addison, Richard Steele and Lord Shaftesbury. He applied these elements in shaping a theologico-aesthetic language in the very same period when Francis Hutcheson and Alexander Baumgarten wrote their widely acclaimed first aesthetic theories in Europe. At the same time, Berkeley advances the linguistic and religious aspects of the modern aesthetic experience not in his theoretical, but in his pragmatical and popularizing writings. Instead of relying on a purely rational theology or a negative theology, he offers an 'aesthetic' one based on the model of the (always visible) beautiful and the (mysteriously invisible) sublime. Aesthetically, this meant a re-interpretation and re-configuration of the duality of the beautiful and the sublime - decades before Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry.
In this highly original account of Bishop George Berkeley's epistemological and metaphysical theories, George S. Pappas seeks to determine precisely what doctrines the philosopher held and what ...arguments he put forward to support them. Specifically.
El objetivo de este artículo es el de ofrecer una introducción práctica y esquemática al concepto de idea en la filosofía de George Berkeley (1685-1753). Es éste un punto teórico central en la ...especulación del filósofo irlandés, imprescindible para la comprensión de sus aportaciones peculiares a la tradición empirista moderna. A través de un análisis de la evolución del concepto de idea en las tres obras mayores de este filósofo, trataré de delinear los rasgos característicos y el recorrido evolutivo de aquel contenido teórico. Finalmente, dedicaré el último apartado a algunas reflexiones a propósito de las ideas abstractas.
The defense of common sense in Berkeley's Three Dialogues is, first and foremost, a defense of the gardener's claim to know his cherry tree, a claim threatened by both Cartesian and Lockean ...philosophy. This defense depends on the esse is percipi thesis (EIP). EIP is not something the gardener believes; rather, it is a philosophical analysis of the rules he unreflectively follows in his use of the word ‘exists’. Uncovering these connections between Berkeley's epistemology and philosophy of language will clarify Berkeley's strategy for bringing his reader back to common sense and practical engagement in the ordinary affairs of life.
Cet article analyse la confrontation entre l’œuvre de Suárez et celle de Berkeley. Suárez est un représentant du courant jésuite de la Contre-Réforme engagé dans une polémique avec Jacques I ...d’Angleterre sur le fondement et la légitimité du pouvoir de droit divin dans le Defensio fidei catholicae adversus anglicanae sectae. La théorie de Berkeley, évêque anglican orthodoxe et conservateur qui traite de l’obéissance passive fidèle à l’impératif paulinien selon lequel « celui qui résiste à l’autorité civile résiste à l’ordre que Dieu a établi» est développée dans On Passive Obedience. Une telle confrontation permet de reformuler la question du fondement du consentement à la loi, ainsi que celle des limites qui correspondent ou non au fait d’être raisonnable et libre, pour pouvoir l’appliquer. La comparaison est faite à partir de l’analyse 1) des limites du pouvoir transféré par la communauté politique au souverain; 2) des conditions de la désobéissance et 3) da nécessité ontologique de la résistance.
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