| Description | | - Part of new important series
- Uses the standard edition of the text with small corrections to bring it in line with Berkeleys original editions.
- Includes new editorial material specially written for the first-year student.
- Explains Berkeleys work and philosophical arguments: one of the trickier subjects covered in most first-year courses is here made lucid and comprehensible.
- Pedagogical features unique to this edition:
- a substantial, clear, readable introduction covering Berkeleys life and thought and discussing the text generally;
- a feature on How to Use this Book;
- a comprehensive Bibliography and Further Reading designed for the student reader;
- analysis of the Dialogues
, outlining the main points in each paragraph of the text;
- glossary covering specialist and old-fashioned words in Berkeleys text;
- endnotes covering the text in detail.
- Jonathan Dancy is an eminent philosopher and the author of various other student textbooks.
- Also available, edited by Dancy in a uniform edition: Berkeleys A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
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The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive introduction by a leading specialist, giving the student detailed critical guidance on the intellectual context of the work and the structure
and philosophical importance of the main arguments. Endnotes are supplied which provide further commentary on the arguments and explain unfamiliar references and terminology, and a full bibliography and index are also included.
The series aims to build up a definitive corpus of key texts in the Western philosophical tradition, which will form a reliable and enduring resource for students
and teachers alike.
The Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
(1713) were designed as a vivid and accessible presentation of the remarkable picture of reality that Berkeley had first presented three years earlier, in his Principles of Human Knowledge
. His striking claim there, as here, was that physical things consist of nothing but ideas in minds. Berkeley uses this thesis as
the ground for a new argument for the existence of God, and the dialogue form enables him to raise and respond to many of the natural objections to his position.
The text printed in this volume is that of the 1734 edition of the Dialogues
, generally agreed to represent Berkeley's mature thought. It is supplemented by a comprehensive introduction which looks in detail at the structure
and main arguments of the work and the relationship between the Dialogues
and the Principles
, and also discusses Berkeley's life, influences, and general philosophy. In addition the volume includes an analysis of the text, a glossary, detailed endnotes, and a full bibliography with guidance on further reading.
Published alongside the Principles
(also edited by Jonathan Dancy),
this new edition of Berkeley's most engaging text provides the student with a thorough introduction to the central ideas of one of the worlds greatest philosophers.
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Readership: First year undergraduates taking courses in Philosophy, History of Philosophy, and Berkeley. More advanced students taking courses in epistemology will also find this of use, as will teachers and scholars in the area.
| Contents |
Part 1: Introductory Material
How to Use this Book
Editor's Introduction
1.
Why read the Dialogues
?
2.
Berkeley's Life
3.
Synopsis of the Dialogues
4.
Berkeley's Metaphysical System
5.
The Main Arguments
6.
Berkeley's Philosophical Purposes
7.
Berkeley's Intellectual Antecedents
8.
Special Topics: Pyrrhonism; Substance; Science
9.
The Relation between the Dialogues
and the Principles
The Text Printed in this Edition; Bibliography and Further Reading; Analysis of the Dialogues
Part 2: The Text
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
Preface
Dialogue I
Dialogue II
Dialogue III
Part 3: Glossary, Notes, and Index
Glossary
Notes to the Dialogues
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
George Berkeley
Edited by Jonathan Dancy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading
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