George Berkeley : a philosophical life / Tom Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Tom, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian philosophers--Biography.

Christian philosophers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (648 p.) : 20 b/w illus.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford, UK : Princeton University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopherIn George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the life and work of the pre-eminent Irish philosopher of the Enlightenment. From his early brilliance as a student and fellow at Trinity College Dublin to his later years as Bishop of Cloyne, Berkeley brought his searching and powerful intellect to bear on the full range of eighteenth-century thought and experience.Jones brings vividly to life the complexities and contradictions of Berkeley’s life and ideas. He advanced a radical immaterialism, holding that the only reality was minds, their thoughts, and their perceptions, without any physical substance underlying them. But he put forward this counterintuitive philosophy in support of the existence and ultimate sovereignty of God. Berkeley was an energetic social reformer, deeply interested in educational and economic improvement, including for the indigenous peoples of North America, yet he believed strongly in obedience to hierarchy and defended slavery. And although he spent much of his life in Ireland, he followed his time at Trinity with years of travel that took him to London, Italy, and New England, where he spent two years trying to establish a university for Bermuda, before returning to Ireland to take up an Anglican bishopric in a predominantly Catholic country.Jones draws on the full range of Berkeley’s writings, from philosophical treatises to personal letters and journals, to probe the deep connections between his life and work. The result is a richly detailed and rounded portrait of a major Enlightenment thinker and the world in which he lived.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and Dating

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Birth to the New Doctrine

Chapter 3 Immaterialism

Chapter 4 Passive Obedience and Early Politics

Chapter 5 Philosopher of Education

Chapter 6 London and Italy

Chapter 7 Others

Chapter 8 London and Italy Again

Chapter 9 Love and Marriage

Chapter 10 Bermuda and Rhode Island

Chapter 11 Alciphron

Chapter 12 The True End of Speech

Chapter 13 Cloyne

Chapter 14 ‘Early Hours as a Regimen’

chapter 15 Cloyne

Chapter 16 Afterlife

Chapter 17 Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

A note on the type

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691217482

OCLC:

1224583140