Pope and Berkeley
Title | Pope and Berkeley PDF eBook |
Author | T. Jones |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2005-09-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230511023 |
The first study dedicated to the relationship between Alexander Pope and George Berkeley, this book undertakes a comparative reading of their work on the visual environment, economics and providence, challenging current ideas of the relationship between poetry and philosophy in early eighteenth-century Britain. It shows how Berkeley's idea that the phenomenal world is the language of God, learnt through custom and experience, can help to explain some of Pope's conservative sceptical arguments, and also his virtuoso poetic techniques.
The Psychological Landscape of Pope's Life and Art
Title | The Psychological Landscape of Pope's Life and Art PDF eBook |
Author | John Ralston Trimble |
Publisher | |
Pages | 752 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | |
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Bishop Berkeley on the Roman Catholic Controversy
Title | Bishop Berkeley on the Roman Catholic Controversy PDF eBook |
Author | George Berkeley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1850 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Works of George Berkeley
Title | The Works of George Berkeley PDF eBook |
Author | George Berkeley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 548 |
Release | 1843 |
Genre | Philosophy, Modern |
ISBN |
The Works of George Berkeley
Title | The Works of George Berkeley PDF eBook |
Author | George Berkeley |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1820 |
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ISBN |
The Works of George Berkeley: Including His Letters To Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, Etc.
Title | The Works of George Berkeley: Including His Letters To Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, Etc. PDF eBook |
Author | George Berkeley |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 542 |
Release | 2024-04-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3385126495 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
George Berkeley
Title | George Berkeley PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Jones |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 648 |
Release | 2021-05-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0691217483 |
A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopher In George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the life and work of the preeminent Irish philosopher of the Enlightenment. From his early brilliance as a student and fellow at Trinity College Dublin to his later years as Bishop of Cloyne, Berkeley brought his searching and powerful intellect to bear on the full range of eighteenth-century thought and experience. Jones brings vividly to life the complexities and contradictions of Berkeley’s life and ideas. He advanced a radical immaterialism, holding that the only reality was minds, their thoughts, and their perceptions, without any physical substance underlying them. But he put forward this counterintuitive philosophy in support of the existence and ultimate sovereignty of God. Berkeley was an energetic social reformer, deeply interested in educational and economic improvement, including for the indigenous peoples of North America, yet he believed strongly in obedience to hierarchy and defended slavery. And although he spent much of his life in Ireland, he followed his time at Trinity with years of travel that took him to London, Italy, and New England, where he spent two years trying to establish a university for Bermuda, before returning to Ireland to take up an Anglican bishopric in a predominantly Catholic country. Jones draws on the full range of Berkeley’s writings, from philosophical treatises to personal letters and journals, to probe the deep connections between his life and work. The result is a richly detailed and rounded portrait of a major Enlightenment thinker and the world in which he lived.