1st Edition

George Berkeley Alciphron in Focus

Edited By David Berman Copyright 1993
    244 Pages
    by Routledge

    244 Pages
    by Routledge

    Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher (1732) is Berkeley's main work of philosophical theology and a crucial source of his views on meaning and language. This edition contains the four most important dialogues and a selection of critical essays and commentaries reflecting the response of such writers as Hutcheson, Mill and Antony Flew. The only single edition currently in print, it argues that Alciphron has a more important place both in the Berkeley canon and in early modern philosophy than is generally thought.

    Introduction, David Berman; Part 1 Alciphron, George Berkeley; The First Dialogue; The Third Dialogue; The Fourth Dialogue; The Seventh Dialogue; Chapter 1 From Divine Analogy(1733) pp. 475–9, 521–5, 537–40, Peter Browne; Chapter 2 ‘Additions and Corrections’ from Inquiry into Beauty and Virtue(4th Edn, 1738), Francis Hutcheson; Chapter 3 From Philosophical Works(1754), Vol. 1, pp. 176–81, Lord Bolingbroke; Chapter 4, J.S. Mill; Chapter 5 From English Thought in the Eighteenth Century(1876), Leslie Stephen; Chapter 6 Berkeley on Beauty, J.O. Urmson; Chapter 7 Berkeley’s Divine Language Argument, A. David Kline; Chapter 8 Cognitive Theology and Emotive Mysteries in Berkeley’s Alciphron, David Berman; Chapter 9 Was Berkeley a Precursor of Wittgenstein?, Antony Flew;

    Biography

    David Berman is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. His publications include A History of Atheism: From Hobbes to Russell (1990) and a number of works on Berkeley. He is editor of the Berkeley Newsletter.