George Berkeley
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Born March 12, 1685
Died January 14, 1753 (67 years old)
Dysart Castle, Kingdom of Ireland
Also known as: Berkeley, George, Bishop George Berkeley
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Bishop George Berkeley was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others).
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The works of George Berkeley, D.D. late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland. To which is added, an account of his life [by J. Stock] and several of his letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, and Mr. Pope, etc
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The Portable Philosophy
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The Portable Philosophy contains excerpts from four major thinkers in the history of philosophy. Erasmus' The Praise of Folly was one of the most influential essays in the Renaissance. Bacon's New Atlantis was a story about the philosophy of science. Berkeley's Three Dialogues was an exercise in idealism. Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling ushered in a new way of thinking about philosophy and religion and is the progenitor of Existentialism.
Siris, a chain of philosophical reflexions and inquiries concerning the virtues of tar water
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A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge, wherein the chief causes of error and difficulty in the sciences
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Cotton Mather, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Kālidāsa, Henry Edward Manning, Nanak Singh, Albius Tibullus, Flavius Josephus, Jawaharlal Nehru, Francis Bacon, Arthur Schopenhauer, Aristotle, Philo of Alexandria, Emmanuel Levinas, Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo, Roland Allen, Franz Rosenzweig, George Berkeley, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Mir Babbar Ali Anis, William Wordsworth, Thomas Hobbes, John Skelton, Henry Fielding, David Hume, Leo Strauss, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Mohamed Ali, Martin Buber, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Juan Montalvo
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On contemporary Indian politics.