乔治·贝克莱：人类知识原理 英文原版 A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

基本信息

Author: George Berkeley

Format: Paperback | 144 pages

Publisher: Dover Publications

ISBN10 048643253X

ISBN13 9780486432533

Publication date 17 Nov 2003

Dimensions: 130 x 210 x 8mm | 136g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍介绍

如果森林里一棵树倒了，没有人在场，它会发出声音吗？根据乔治·伯克利的说法，事实并非如此。在1710年的版本中，这个西方哲学的里程碑引入了一个革命性的概念：唯心主义，它断言存在就是感知或被感知。作为一个爱尔兰牧师，他的整个哲学生涯都是作为一名牧师，伯克利把他的调查和他的宗教兴趣联系起来。一篇关于人类知识原理的论文以对洛克的抽象概念理论的攻击开始，并以这样的论点开始：感性的品质只有在被视为概念时才存在。他声称，物理对象只不过是品质的集合，而这些可感知的对象也不过是观念。伯克利将他的立场与十八世纪的科学成就联系起来，并宣称唯心主义与传统宗教的相容性。这部经典著作充分体现了柏克莱的唯心主义，影响了从大卫·休谟到伯特兰·罗素以及其他逻辑实证主义者的英国哲学家。这是所有学哲学的学生所需要的读物。

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is present to hear it, does it make a sound? It does not, according to George Berkeley. Originally published in 1710, this landmark of Western philosophy introduced a revolutionary concept: immaterialism, which asserts that to be is to perceive or be perceived.

An Irish clergyman who spent his entire philosophical career as a churchman, Berkeley linked his investigations to his religious interests. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge opens with an assault on Locke's theory of abstract ideas and proceeds with arguments that sensible qualities exist only when perceived as ideas. Physical objects, he claims, are no more than collections of qualities, and these sensible objects, too, are merely ideas. Berkeley relates his position to the achievements of eighteenth-century science, and proclaims the compatibility of immaterialism with traditional religion.

The fullest expression of Berkeley's doctrine of immaterialism, this classic work influenced British philosophers from David Hume to Bertrand Russell and the other logical positivists. It is essential reading for all students of philosophy.

作者简介

乔治·贝克莱(1685年3月12日－1753年1月14日)，著名英裔爱尔兰哲学家，同时为圣公会驻爱尔兰科克郡克洛因镇的主教，与约翰·洛克和大卫·休谟被认为是英国近代经验主义哲学家中的三大代表人物。他著有《视觉新论》(1709年)和《人类知识原理》(1710年)等作品。美国加州的柏克莱市便是以他的名字命名。耶鲁大学也有一个本科寄宿学院是以他命名。

George Berkeley (March 12, 1685 -- January 14, 1753) was an Anglo-Irish philosopher, bishop of Croydon, County Cork, and bishop of The Anglican church of Ireland. He was the author of A New Theory of Vision (1709) and Principles of Human Knowledge (1710). The city of Berkeley, California, is named after him. Yale University also has an undergraduate boarding school named after him.