![]() ![]() The Dialogues was written as a popular exposition of his philosophical system, developing the ideas put forward in his Essay towards a New Theory of Vision (1709) and the Principles, yet was very much its own work, ![]() Perhaps his most shocking claim in favour of his metaphysics was his oft-repeated contention that his principles were in strict accord with common sense and inimical to skepticism" (Grattan-Guinness, p. He pointed out that even philosophers who posit the existence of material bodies cannot explain how matter can produce ideas in the mind, or how purely mental phenomena like ideas could resemble or correspond to non-mental, material substances. The book "set out his idealistic philosophy in detail, arguing that the concept of 'material substance' is at once absurd and explanatorily useless. The Principles was Berkeley's key work and a cornerstone of 18th-century philosophy, "the classic exposition of his philosophy of immaterialism as an antidote to infidelity" (ODNB), famously putting forward the idea that "no object can exist without a mind to conceive it". ![]() "There is also some evidence of revision of the Three Dialogues shewn by minor verbal changes" (Keynes). The Principles is revised by Berkeley with the dedication and preface omitted, several substantial additions, and many verbal changes. Second edition of both the Principles and the Three Dialogues, first published separately in 17 published together for the first time here. ![]()
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