A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Dover Philosophical Classics) - Softcover

Berkeley, George

 
9780486432533: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Dover Philosophical Classics)

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Originally published in 1710, this landmark of Western philosophy introduced a revolutionary concept: immaterialism, which asserts that to be is to perceive or be perceived. The treatise opens with an assault on Locke's theory of abstract ideas and proceeds with arguments that sensible qualities exist only when perceived as ideas.

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Originally published in 1710, this landmark of Western philosophy introduced a revolutionary concept: immaterialism, which asserts that to be is to perceive or be perceived. The treatise opens with an assault on Locke's theory of abstract ideas and proceeds with arguments that sensible qualities exist only when perceived as ideas.

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