This thinker compiled a didactic set of essays on education and religion originally attributed to Lady Mary Wray.
This thinker compiled a didactic set of essays on education and religion originally attributed to Lady Mary Wray. That work, The Ladies Library, preceded a piece on Mt. Vesuvius and a work with a Latin title analyzing the nature of motion. He expressed an interest in monetary reform in The Querist and in another essay penned the line, "Westward the course of empire takes its way."In addition to criticizing the theory of fluxions, he argued against Malebranche's representationalist theories by positing that because we perceive objects, but can only immediately perceive ideas, it is virtually impossible for an object to exist outside of the mind. That idea, now known as "the master argument," was elaborated upon in a work written "in opposition to Skeptics and Atheists," as a supplement to his 1710 work Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. For 10 points, identify this Bishop of Cloyne who wrote The Analyst and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous.
This thinker compiled a didactic set of essays on education and religion originally attributed to Lady Mary Wray.
George Berkeley