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Berkeley's Principles and Dialogues Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-49806-7 - Berkeley’s Principles and Dialogues: Background Source Materials Edited by C. J. McCracken and I. C. Tipton Frontmatter More information Berkeley’s Principles and Dialogues background source materials Edited by C. J. McCracken Michigan State University I. C. Tipton University of Wales Swansea © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-49806-7 - Berkeley’s Principles and Dialogues: Background Source Materials Edited by C. J. McCracken and I. C. 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Tipton. p. cm. – (Cambridge philosophical texts in context) Includes bibliographical references and index, ISBN 0-521-49681-0 (hbk) – ISBN 0-521-49806-6 (pbk.) 1. Berkeley, George, 1685–1753. Treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge. 2. Berkeley, George, 1685–1753. Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. 3. Knowledge, Theory of. 4. Idealism. 5. Soul. I. McCracken, Charles J. (Charles James), 1933– II. Tipton, I. C. III. Series. B1334 .B47 2000 192 – dc21 99-059435 isbn 978-0-521-49681-0 Hardback isbn 978-0-521-49806-7 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. 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Tipton Frontmatter More information Contents Preface page ix Introduction 1 PART ONE: THE BACKGROUND TO BERKELEY’S PHILOSOPHY I Rene´ Descartes 13 II Henricus Regius 26 III Nicolas Malebranche 29 IV Pierre de Lanion 55 V Antoine Arnauld 60 VI Jean Brunet 70 VII Pierre Bayle 76 VIII John Locke 90 IX Henry Lee 119 X John Norris 132 XI Arthur Collier 142 PART TWO: REACTIONS TO BERKELEY’S PHILOSOPHY XII First Reactions 159 XIII Early Reviews 173 vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-49806-7 - Berkeley’s Principles and Dialogues: Background Source Materials Edited by C. J. McCracken and I. C. Tipton Frontmatter More information viii contents XIV G. W. Leibniz 191 XV Andrew Baxter 193 XVI David Hume 208 XVII Samuel Johnson 223 XVIII French Reactions 233 XIX German Reactions 252 XX Thomas Reid 268 XXI John Stuart Mill 279 Index of Names 295 Subject Index 299 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-49806-7 - Berkeley’s Principles and Dialogues: Background Source Materials Edited by C. J. McCracken and I. C. Tipton Frontmatter More information Preface The selections in this volume have been chosen because they either illuminate the background from which Berkeley’s philosophical views emerged or illustrate the reactions those views provoked, particularly in the eighteenth century. The explanatory commentaries that accompany the selections aim to show their relation to Berkeley’s views. We have modernized the spelling and punctuation of the selections from Henry Lee, John Norris, Arthur Collier, Andrew Baxter, and Samuel Johnson; those from Locke, Hume, Reid, and Mill follow various editions of their works. In the case of selections from works not originally in English, the translations we have used are noted; translations not attributed to others are our own. For permission to reprint certain materials, we are grateful to the following: Thomas M. Lennon and Paul J. Olscamp, for extracts from Malebranche’s Search after Truth; Edwin Mellen Press, for extracts from Arnauld’s On True and False Ideas; Simon and Schuster, for an extract from Arnauld’s The Art of Thinking; the editor of Hermathena, for ex- tracts from Berkeley’s letters to Le Clerc; Oxford University Press, for extracts from Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature and An Enquiry con- cerning Human Understanding; Peter Gay, for an extract from Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary; and Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., for ex- tracts from Bayle’s Historical and Critical Dictionary and Kant’s Prolego- mena to Any Future Metaphysics. For quotations from Berkeley, we have used The Works of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, edited by A. A. Luce and T. E. Jessop (Edin- burgh: Thomas Nelson, 1948–57), nine volumes. References to Works, followed by the volume number, are to this edition. The following abbreviations have also been used: ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-49806-7 - Berkeley’s Principles and Dialogues: Background Source Materials Edited by C. J. McCracken and I. C. Tipton Frontmatter More information x preface Principles,orPHK, for A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge; Dialogues,orThree Dialogues, for Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous; PC for Berkeley’s notebooks, the Philosophical Commentaries. Quotations from the Philosophical Commentaries preserve Berkeley’s idi- osyncratic punctuation, capitalization, etc. The responsibility for such flaws as there may be in our translations, commentaries, or notes is of course entirely ours. However, there would have been more had it not been for generous help and advice we re- ceived from others. We therefore gratefully acknowledge advice or assis- tance we received from, among others, Anne and Bruce Freed, Rolf George, Douglas Jesseph, Michael Koppisch, Manfred Kuehn, Thomas Lennon, John Rauk, David Raynor, and Claudia Schmidt. We are par- ticularly indebted to Katherine McCracken, who read the successive drafts of the manuscript and who made many valuable editorial sugges- tions. She and Diana Tipton have been supportive at every stage. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org.
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