Alciphron, or, The minute philosopher in focus

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Alciphron, or, The minute philosopher in focus

George Berkeley ; edited by David Berman

(Routledge philosophers in focus series)

Routledge, 1993

  • : pbk

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Alciphron

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Bibliography: p. 227-230

Includes index

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Volume

ISBN 9780415063722

Description

This volume contains the four most important dialogues of George Berkeley's "Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher" (1732) together with essays and commentaries from the 18th to the 20th centuries. "Alciphron" is Berkeley's most sustained work of philosophical theology. It also contains his final views of meaning and language, some of which (as Anthony Flew argues in his essay) anticipate those of Wittgenstein. In his introduction David Berman shows that "Alciphron" has a closer connection with Berkeley's immaterialist philosophy than is generally thought. This book aims to be of considerable interest to philosophy students, particularly those concerned with philosophy of religion and language. It will also be of interest to students in religious studies and intellectual history, since in "Alciphron" Berkeley develops one of the last great philosophical defences of religion as well as providing a shrewd account of the rise and nature of deism and atheism.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Alciphron: Dialogue I, III, IV, VII. Part 2 Extracts from contemporaries: Peter Brown, Divine Analogy
  • Francis Hutcheson, Inquiry into Beauty and Virtue
  • Lord Bolingbroke, Philosophical Works. Part 3 Extracts from 19th-century critics: J.S. Mill, Berkley's Life and Writings
  • Lesley Stephen, English Thought in the 18th Century. Part 3 20th-century articles: J.O. Urmson, Berkley on Beauty
  • A. David Kline, Berkley's Divine Language Argument
  • David Berman, Cognitive Theology and Emotive Mystery in Berkley's Alciphron
  • Antony Flew, Berkley as Precursor of Wittgenstein.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780415063739

Description

Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher (1732) is Berkeley's main work of philosophical theology and a crucial source of his views on meaning and language. This edition contains the four most important dialogues and a selection of critical essays and commentaries reflecting the response of such writers as Hutcheson, Mill and Antony Flew. The only single edition currently in print, it argues that Alciphron has a more important place both in the Berkeley canon and in early modern philosophy than is generally thought.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction, David Berman
  • Part 1 Alciphron, George Berkeley
  • The First Dialogue
  • The Third Dialogue
  • The Fourth Dialogue
  • The Seventh Dialogue
  • Chapter 1 From Divine Analogy(1733) pp. 475-9, 521-5, 537-40, Peter Browne
  • Chapter 2 'Additions and Corrections' from Inquiry into Beauty and Virtue(4th Edn, 1738), Francis Hutcheson
  • Chapter 3 From Philosophical Works(1754), Vol. 1, pp. 176-81, Lord Bolingbroke
  • Chapter 4, J.S. Mill
  • Chapter 5 From English Thought in the Eighteenth Century(1876), Leslie Stephen
  • Chapter 6 Berkeley on Beauty, J.O. Urmson
  • Chapter 7 Berkeley's Divine Language Argument, A. David Kline
  • Chapter 8 Cognitive Theology and Emotive Mysteries in Berkeley's Alciphron, David Berman
  • Chapter 9 Was Berkeley a Precursor of Wittgenstein?, Antony Flew

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