George Berkeley

1685 - 1753 *

English philosopher who argued against Lockean scepticism and posited an alternative based, famously, on common sense

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		Berkeley Studies -- Detailed essays on Berkeley's metaphysics, monism, and Hylas & Philonous, along with links to related sites and texts. http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ursa/philo... Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 245 0 users have rated it an average of 0 stars     [rate it] George Berkeley -- Extracts on Berkeley from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, quotes, and the text of Hylas and Philonous. http://www.bartleby.com/people/BerkeleyG... Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 103 1 users have rated it an average of 5 stars     [rate it] International Berkeley Society -- Information about the Society and a well-organised collection of links to external sites. http://www.georgeberkeley.org.uk/ Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 59 0 users have rated it an average of 0 stars     [rate it] Berkeley's Theological Idealism -- An overview of Berkeley's theological idealism. http://hometown.aol.com/recogswell/ Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 102 0 users have rated it an average of 0 stars     [rate it]

     

Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The four first acts already past,
A fifth shall close the drama with the day:
Time's noblest offspring is the last. -- On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America.

George Berkeley

Our youth we can have but to-day,
We may always find time to grow old. -- Can Love be controlled by Advice?

George Berkeley

[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. -- Siris. Par. 217.

George Berkeley

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