A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, published in Dublin in 1710 when its author was twenty-five, is the work in which George Berkeley set out his immaterialism. After an introduction attacking the doctrine of abstract ideas, which he blames for the confusions of philosophy, Berkeley argues that the objects of sense are nothing but ideas, that their existence consists in being perceived, that philosophers' matter is an empty word, and that the order and permanence of things are secured not by a material substratum but by the mind of God. He answers a series of objections and draws out the consequences for science, mathematics and religion. The argument has never stopped being debated. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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