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Ireland
Berkeley was born at his family home, Dysart Castle, near Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland, the eldest son of William Berkeley, a cadet of the noble family of Berkeley whose ancestry can be traced back to the Anglo-Saxon period and who had served as feudal lords and landowners in Gloucester, England. Little is known of his mother. He was educated at Kilkenny College and attended Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a Scholarin 1702, being awarded BA in 1704 and MA and a Fellowship...
England and Europe
Shortly afterwards, Berkeley visited England and was received into the circle of Addison, Pope and Steele. In the period between 1714 and 1720, he interspersed his academic endeavours with periods of extensive travel in Europe, including one of the most extensive Grand Tours of the length and breadth of Italy ever undertaken. In 1721, he took Holy Orders in the Church of Ireland, earning his doctorate in divinity, and once again chose to remain at Trinity College Dublin, lecturing this time i...
Marriage and America
In 1728, he married Anne Forster, daughter of John Forster, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, and Forster's first wife Rebecca Monck. He then went to America on a salary of £100 per annum. He landed near Newport, Rhode Island, where he bought a plantation at Middletown – the famous "Whitehall". Berkeley purchased several enslaved Africans to work on the plantation.In 2023, Trinity College in Dublin removed Berkeley's name from one of its libraries because of his slave ownership and his...
The use of the concepts of "spirit" and "idea" is central in Berkeley's philosophy. As used by him, these concepts are difficult to translate into modern terminology. His concept of "spirit" is close to the concept of "conscious subject" or of "mind", and the concept of "idea" is close to the concept of "sensation" or "state of mind" or "conscious ...
Berkeley's Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge was published three years before the publication of Arthur Collier's Clavis Universalis, which made assertions similar to those of Berkeley's.However, there seemed to have been no influence or communication between the two writers. German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once wrote of ...
Lord Byron's Don Juanreferences immaterialism in the Eleventh Canto: Herman Melville humorously references Berkeley in Chapter 20 of Mardi(1849), when outlining a character's belief of being on board a ghostship: James Joyce references Berkeley's philosophy in the third episode of Ulysses(1922): In commenting on a review of Ada or Ardor, author Vla...
Both the University of California, Berkeley, and the city of Berkeley, California, were named after him, although the pronunciation has evolved to suit American English: (/ˈbɜːrkli/ BURK-lee). The naming was suggested in 1866 by Frederick H. Billings, a trustee of what was then called the College of California. Billings was inspired by Berkeley's V...
Original publications
1. Arithmetica(1707) 2. Miscellanea Mathematica(1707) 3. Philosophical Commentaries or Common-Place Book(1707–08, notebooks) 4. An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision(1709) 5. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Part I (1710) 6. Passive Obedience, or the Christian doctrine of not resisting the Supreme Power(1712) 7. Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous(1713) 8. An Essay Towards Preventing the Ruin of Great Britain(1721) 9. De Motu(1721) 10. A Proposal for Better S...
Collections
1. The Works of George Berkeley, D.D. 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, and Mr. Pope, &c. &c. Printed for George Robinson, Pater Noster Row, 1784. Two volumes. 2. The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., formerly Bishop of Cloyne: Including Many of His Writings Hitherto Unpublished; With Prefaces, Annotations, His Life and Letters, and an Account of His Philosophy. Ed. by Alexander Campbell Fr...
"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"Yogacara and consciousness-onlyschools of thoughtBibliographic resources
1. Jessop T. E., Luce A. A. A bibliography of George Berkeley 2 edn., Springer, 1973. ISBN 978-90-247-1577-0 2. Turbayne C. M. A Bibliography of George Berkeley 1963–1979 in: Berkeley: Critical and Interpretive Essays – via Google Books, Manchester, 1982. pp. 313–29. 3. Berkeley Bibliography (1979–2010) Archived 3 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine– A Supplement to those of Jessop and Turbayne by Silvia Parigi. 4. A Bibliography on George Berkeley– About 300 works from the 19th century to our d...
Philosophical studies
1. Daniel, Stephen H. (ed.), Re-examining Berkeley's Philosophy, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. 2. Daniel, Stephen H. (ed.), New Interpretations of Berkeley's Thought, Amherst: Humanity Books, 2008. 3. Dicker, Georges, Berkeley's Idealism. A Critical Examination, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 4. Gaustad, Edwin. George Berkeley in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959. 5. Pappas, George S., Berkeley's Thought, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. 6. Sto...
Adamson, Robert; Mitchell, John Malcolm (1911). "Berkeley, George" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). pp. 779–781.R.H. Nichols; F A. Wray (1935). The History of the Foundling Hospital. London: Oxford Univ. Press.p. 349.Brook, Richard J. (1973). Berkeley's Philosophy of Science. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. ISBN 978-90-247-1555-8.George Berkeley at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)Downing, Lisa. "George Berkeley". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.George Berkeley Archived 14 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine in the Internet Encyclopedia of PhilosophyBerkeley's Philosophy of Science in the Internet Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPenguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. The new company was created by a merger that was finalised on 1 July 2013, with Bertelsmann initially owning 53% of the joint venture, and Pearson PLC initially owning the remaining 47%. [2] .
