Berkeley’s Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

Author George Berkeley
Narrator William Schuller, Albert A. Anderson
Publisher SAGA Egmont
Run Time 4 hours and 37 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Religion and beliefs.

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Berkeley uses the Socratic mode of inquiry in "Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous" to question fundamental beliefs about knowledge and reality. These dialogues are between Hylas (whose name is derived from the ancient Greek word for matter) and Philonous, whose name means "lover of mind." The new physical sciences developed in the seventeenth century supported the materialism proposed by Thomas Hobbes and several other philosophers. This worldview proclaimed that all of reality consists of nothing but matter in motion, thus promoting atheism and ethical skepticism. The implications for politics, ethics, and religion caused concern among leading intellectuals in the eighteenth century. Whatever the value of the positive claims presented in this work, Berkeley foreshadows the philosophical impact of twentieth century physics, which challenges the foundations of such materialism and calls for a better understanding of both the physical and the mental aspects of reality.
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