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UNINA9910451396103321 |
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Autore |
Berman David <1942-> |
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Berkeley and Irish philosophy [[electronic resource] /] / David Berman |
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London ; ; New York, : Thoemmes Continuum, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-29489-6 |
9786611294892 |
1-84714-427-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (245 p.) |
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Collana |
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Continuum Studies in British Philosophy |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Philosophy - Ireland |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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George Berkeley -- On missing the wrong target -- Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment in Irish philosophy -- The culmination and causation of Irish philosophy -- Francis Hutcheson on Berkeley and the Molyneux problem -- The impact of Irish philosophy on the American Enlightenment -- Irish ideology and philosophy -- An early essay concerning Berkeley's immaterialism -- Mrs. Berkeley's annotations in An account of the life of Berkeley (1776) -- Some new Bermuda Berkeleiana -- The good bishop : new letters -- Beckett and Berkeley. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The first essay in David Berman's new collection examines the full range of Berkeley's achievement, looking not only at his classic works of 1709-1713, but also Alciphron (1732) and his final book, the enigmaic Siris (1744). Item two examines a key problem in Berkeley's New Theory of Vision (1709): why does the moon look larger on the horizon than in the meridian? The third item criticizes the view, still uncritically accepted by many, that Berkeley's attacks on materialism are levelled against Locke.Part 2 opens with Berman's two essays of 1982 - the first to show that Berkeley came from a ri |
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