Berkeley's 'Principles of Human Knowledge': A Reader's Guide (Reader's Guides)
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (663 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1847060293 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Alasdair Richmond is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
As a free-standing systematic exposition of Berkeley's ideas, this is a hugely important and influential text, central to any undergraduate's study of the history of philosophy.. Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge is a key text in the history of British Empiricism and 18th-century thought
He asks the reader stimulating questions to help them engage with the text, and usefully sketches Berkeley's intellectual background and the fortunes of the work's reception. "Richmond's Reader's Guide is the perfect companion for those students approaching Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge for the first time. This is a book truly written with students in mind, and all the better for that.” – Dr Peter Kail, University of Oxford, UK . In a clear, unpretentious and often unobtrusively witty style, Richmond takes the reader through the work paragraph by paragraph, explaining its meaning, often by appeal to Berkeley's notebooks and other works. This is a book truly written with students in mind, and
"Berkeley explained" according to Ingibjörg E. Björnsdottir. Alasdair Richmond is an excellent philosopher who explains Berkeley to us readers. Reading this book is truly worth the effort.