| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 148 pages) |
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Intro; Table of Contents; Introduction; The Age of Reason: an Age of Transition; Berkeleian Scholarship; Chapter One; Introduction; Platonic and Aristotelian Cosmology; Neoplatonic and Plotinian Cosmology; The Cosmology of Avicenna and Averroes; Christian Cosmology; Christian Neoplatonism; Chapter Two; Introduction; Berkeleyâ#x80;#x99;s Historical Milieu; The New Science; The cosmos; Newtonian physics; The New Philosophy; Cartesian mechanism; Atheismâ#x80;#x99;s Debt to Deism; Berkeleyâ#x80;#x99;s Attitude towards Deism; Chapter Three; Introduction; The Philosophical Commentaries |
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An Essay Towards a New Theory of VisionA Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge; Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous; De Motu; Alciphron; The Theory of Vision Vindicated; Chapter Four; Introduction; The Chain of Being; Unity and existence; Person in Siris; Evaluation; Man in communion with God; Chapter Five; Synopsis and Evaluation; An Alternative Theory of Dependence; Conclusion; Bibliography |
| Summary |
This work traces the theory of Radical Dependence through its various forms in Berkeley's philosophical works. It shows that a desire to establish a theory of Radical Dependence underlies all of these works and that this theory unifies Berkeley's various phases of philosophical development. The work begins by establishing the meaning of "Radical Dependence" and examining the influence of Greek, Early Christian and Mediaeval philosophers and theologians on the development of the concept. Subsequently, the deism of the seventeenth-century philosophers is examined; the influence of science and rat |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Berkeley, George, 1685-1753
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Religion -- Philosophy.
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God (Christianity)
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Western philosophy: Enlightenment.
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Nature & existence of God.
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Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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God (Christianity)
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Religion -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781527506886 |
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1527506886 |
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