Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

George Berkeley

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Theophania Publishing
Country
Published
9 September 2011
Pages
130
ISBN
9781770833531

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

George Berkeley

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. Three important concepts discussed in the Three Dialogues are perceptual relativity, the conceivability/master argument, and Berkeley’s phenomenalism. Perceptual relativity argues that the same object can appear to have different characteristics (e.g. shape) depending on the observer’s perspective. Since objective features of objects cannot change without an inherent change in the object itself, shape must not be an objective feature. Berkeley uses Hylas as his primary contemporary philosophical adversary. A Hylas is featured in Greek mythology and is understood to represent John Locke . In the Dialogues, the name Hylas is derived from an ancient Greek word for matter, which Hylas argues for in the dialogue.Using Philonous, Berkeley argues his own metaphysical views, which were first developed in his earlier book A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge.

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