Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - George Berkeley

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

By: George Berkeley

Paperback | 22 December 2017

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $27.91

$26.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $6.69 with

Ships in 5 to 7 business days

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (commonly called Treatise when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 work, in English, by Anglo-Irish Empiricist philosopher George Berkeley. This book largely seeks to refute the claims made by Berkeley's contemporary John Locke about the nature of human perception. Whilst, like all the Empiricist philosophers, both Locke and Berkeley agreed that we are having experiences, regardless of whether material objects exist, Berkeley sought to prove that the outside world (the world which causes the ideas one has within one's mind) is also composed solely of ideas. Berkeley did this by suggesting that "Ideas can only resemble Ideas" - the mental ideas that we possess can only resemble other ideas (not material objects) and thus the external world consists not of physical form, but rather of ideas. This world is (or, at least, was) given logic and regularity by some other force, which Berkeley concludes is God.
 

Other Editions and Formats

Hardcover

Published: 1st December 1982

More in Philosophy

On the Calculation of Volume III - Solvej Balle

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
God, the Science, the Evidence - Michel-Yves Bollore

RRP $48.99

$38.75

21%
OFF
The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot
In Praise of the Earth : A Journey into the Garden - Byung-Chul Han
Letters from a Stoic : The Ancient Classic - Seneca

RRP $24.95

$21.75

13%
OFF
Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor E Frankl

RRP $16.99

$14.75

13%
OFF
The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy : Leather-bound Classics - Sun Tzu
Quantum 2.0 : The Past, Present, and Future of Quantum Physics - Paul Davies
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas - Ngugi wa Thiong'o
On Bullshit : Anniversary Edition - Harry G. Frankfurt
Plain Life : On Thinking, Feeling and Deciding - Antonia Pont

RRP $34.99

$29.99

14%
OFF
The Seeker and the Sage - Brigid Delaney

RRP $32.99

$26.95

18%
OFF
The Golden Road : How Ancient India Transformed the World - William Dalrymple
Monsters : What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People? - Claire Dederer
The War on the West : How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason - Douglas Murray
Wabi Sabi : Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life - Beth Kempton
Ikigai : The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life - Hector Garcia