Author:George Berkeley (1685-1753)

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George Berkeley
(1685–1753)

influential Irish philosopher and churchman; also known as Bishop Berkeley

George Berkeley

Works[edit]

  • Arithmetica (1707)
  • Miscellanea Mathematica (1707)
  • Philosophical Commentaries or Common-Place Book (1707–08, notebooks)
  • An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (1709)
  • A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710)
  • Passive Obedience, or the Christian doctrine of not resisting the Supreme Power (1712)
  • Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (1713)
  • An Essay Towards Preventing the Ruin of Great Britain (1721)
  • De Motu (1721)
  • A Proposal for Better Supplying Churches in our Foreign Plantations, and for converting the Savage Americans to Christianity by a College to be erected in the Summer Islands (1725)
  • A Sermon preached before the incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (1732)
  • Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher (1732)
  • The Theory of Vision, or Visual Language, shewing the immediate presence and providence of a Deity, vindicated and explained (1733)
  • The Analyst: a Discourse addressed to an Infidel Mathematician (1734)
  • A Defence of Free-thinking in Mathematics, with Appendix concerning Mr. Walton's vindication of Sir Isaac Newton's Principle of Fluxions (1735)
  • Reasons for not replying to Mr. Walton's Full Answer (1735)
  • The Querist, containing several queries proposed to the consideration of the public (three parts, 1735-7).
  • A Discourse addressed to Magistrates and Men of Authority (1736)
  • Siris, a chain of philosophical reflections and inquiries, concerning the virtues of tar-water (1744).
  • A Letter to the Roman Catholics of the Diocese of Cloyne (1745)
  • A Word to the Wise, or an exhortation to the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland (1749)
  • Maxims concerning Patriotism (1750)
  • Farther Thoughts on Tar-water (1752)
  • Miscellany (1752)

Works about Berkeley[edit]

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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