One work by this author attempts to defend the truth of divine revelation against such Freethinkers as the Earl of Shaftesbury; titled with the name of a Greek sophist, it is subtitled The Minute Philosopher.
One work by this author attempts to defend the truth of divine revelation against such Freethinkers as the Earl of Shaftesbury; titled with the name of a Greek sophist, it is subtitled The Minute Philosopher. In addition to writing Alciphron, this author also rejected Newtonian mechanics in De Motu. He critiques materialist ontologies and empiricist epistemologies in a work that presents his so-called "master argument," regarding conceivability in which one of the interlocutors is meant to represent John Locke. Claiming "to be is to be perceived," FTP name this Anglo-Irish immaterialist philosopher and fan of tar-water, author of Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous.
One work by this author attempts to defend the truth of divine revelation against such Freethinkers as the Earl of Shaftesbury; titled with the name of a Greek sophist, it is subtitled The Minute Philosopher.
George {Berkeley}