Samuel C. Rickless presents a novel interpretation of the thought of George Berkeley. In A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (1713), Berkeley argues for the astonishing view that physical objects (such as tables and chairs) a[...]

This vital addition to the Blackwell Great Minds series offers a focused assessment of the fundamental principles of a giant of the western tradition in philosophical thought. The book covers every aspect of the thinker whose matchless mental agility fatally undermined the medieval absolutism of[...]