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1820 Works of George Berkeley - Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland (3 Vols) Philosophy
1820 Works of George Berkeley - Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland (3 Vols) Philosophy
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The Works of George Berkeley DD.
Late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland. To which is added An Account of his Life; and Several of his Letters to Thomas Prior Esq. Dean Gervais Mr. Pope etc,
Complete in Three Volumes - Combining his philosophical, scientific, mathematical, moral, political, and theological works.
Printed for J. F. Dove for Richard Priestley, London, 1820. First octavo edition of the collected works of Berkeley, first published in quarto in 1784 (see Keynes, Bibliography of George Berkeley, p. 262). Both the quarto and the octavo collected works are uncommon on the market. Complete in Three Volumes. Hardback, bound in uncommon early cloth (original bindings). Title labels to spines. pp 411, 455 and 476. Volume I contains a large engraved folding plate of "The City of Bermuda Metropolis of the Summer Islands, and volume II contains an engraved folding plate of Tabula Lusoria.
CONDITION
A very good first octavo edition, complete in three voluems and contents. The unusual early cloth bindings are in surprisingly good condition for their age, all boards good and no cracking to the hinges, All contents present to all through volumes and pages in good clean condition throughout. Bookplates to inside front boards (William Charles Henry). Overall very good.
In philosophy, Berkeley provided a link between the period of Descartes and Locke and that of Hume and Kant. ìThe principle which underlay all Berkeleyís philosophical writing was based on a rejection of all speculation, such as Lockeís, about the meaning and necessity of matter as a primal necessity to any theory of human understanding. Briefly, Berkeley maintained that no existence is conceivable or possible which is not conscious spirit or the ideas of which such a spirit is conscious. This presupposes complete equation of subject and object: no object and exist without a Mind to conceive it. Without the pre-existence of the Mind, matter and substance, cause and effect, can have no meaning. In the Principles, externality absolutely independent of all mind is shown to be an unreal, impossible conception: true substance is the conscious spirit and true causality the free action of such a spirit. Physical substance and causes are relations among phenomena, arbitrary though (by the action of the Mind) constant. Connexions between them are viewed subjectively as the suggestion or associations of the human mind, and objectively as the operation of the Universal Mind. Thus the universe is the sum of human experience, and form a symbol of the divine universal intelligence: esse est percipiî (Printing and the Mind of Man).
Besides Berkeley's most celebrated explorations of perception, as expressed in Principles of Human Knowledge, his ìmore general aim in these writings is to show that the goal of science can be no more than describing phenomena through the laws and theories(ëhypothesesí) of science that govern them, and thus to trace the ëgrammarí or ëlanguage of natureí without intervening concepts, at least insofar as these concepts might be construed existentially or as sources of ëactive powerí, which in Berkeleyís terminology would amount to giving an ëexplanationíî (D.S.B.). Also included in the Works is his enlightened social project for the Americas, where education and spiritual provision would be freely available to all, and the native population would be converted to a benevolent Christianity.
Late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland. To which is added An Account of his Life; and Several of his Letters to Thomas Prior Esq. Dean Gervais Mr. Pope etc,
Complete in Three Volumes - Combining his philosophical, scientific, mathematical, moral, political, and theological works.
Printed for J. F. Dove for Richard Priestley, London, 1820. First octavo edition of the collected works of Berkeley, first published in quarto in 1784 (see Keynes, Bibliography of George Berkeley, p. 262). Both the quarto and the octavo collected works are uncommon on the market. Complete in Three Volumes. Hardback, bound in uncommon early cloth (original bindings). Title labels to spines. pp 411, 455 and 476. Volume I contains a large engraved folding plate of "The City of Bermuda Metropolis of the Summer Islands, and volume II contains an engraved folding plate of Tabula Lusoria.
CONDITION
A very good first octavo edition, complete in three voluems and contents. The unusual early cloth bindings are in surprisingly good condition for their age, all boards good and no cracking to the hinges, All contents present to all through volumes and pages in good clean condition throughout. Bookplates to inside front boards (William Charles Henry). Overall very good.
In philosophy, Berkeley provided a link between the period of Descartes and Locke and that of Hume and Kant. ìThe principle which underlay all Berkeleyís philosophical writing was based on a rejection of all speculation, such as Lockeís, about the meaning and necessity of matter as a primal necessity to any theory of human understanding. Briefly, Berkeley maintained that no existence is conceivable or possible which is not conscious spirit or the ideas of which such a spirit is conscious. This presupposes complete equation of subject and object: no object and exist without a Mind to conceive it. Without the pre-existence of the Mind, matter and substance, cause and effect, can have no meaning. In the Principles, externality absolutely independent of all mind is shown to be an unreal, impossible conception: true substance is the conscious spirit and true causality the free action of such a spirit. Physical substance and causes are relations among phenomena, arbitrary though (by the action of the Mind) constant. Connexions between them are viewed subjectively as the suggestion or associations of the human mind, and objectively as the operation of the Universal Mind. Thus the universe is the sum of human experience, and form a symbol of the divine universal intelligence: esse est percipiî (Printing and the Mind of Man).
Besides Berkeley's most celebrated explorations of perception, as expressed in Principles of Human Knowledge, his ìmore general aim in these writings is to show that the goal of science can be no more than describing phenomena through the laws and theories(ëhypothesesí) of science that govern them, and thus to trace the ëgrammarí or ëlanguage of natureí without intervening concepts, at least insofar as these concepts might be construed existentially or as sources of ëactive powerí, which in Berkeleyís terminology would amount to giving an ëexplanationíî (D.S.B.). Also included in the Works is his enlightened social project for the Americas, where education and spiritual provision would be freely available to all, and the native population would be converted to a benevolent Christianity.
