The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton

One of the greatest British philosophers, Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was the founder of the influential doctrine of Immaterialism - the belief that there is no reality outside the mind, and that the existence of material objects depends upon their being perceived. The Principles of Human Knowledge eloquently outlines this philosophical concept, and argues forcefully that the world consists purely of finite minds and ideas, and of an infinite spirit, God. A denial of all non-spiritual real...

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This massive anthology of philosophy contains over 75 works by a dozen of the most known philosophers of all time. An active table of contents makes it easy to quickly to the work you want.Authors and books include:Aeschylus:AgamemnonBound and Seven Against ThebesThe House of AtreusMaidens and Other PlaysAristotle:The Athenian ConstitutionThe CategoriesEthicsThe Poetics of AristotleFrancis Bacon:The Advancement of LearningThe Essays of Francis BaconThe New AtlantisValerius TerminusGeorge Berk...

The rise and fall of British Empiricism is philosophy's most dramatic example of pushing premises to their logical--and fatal--conclusions. Born in 1690 with the appearance of Locke's Essay, Empiricism flourished as the reigning school until 1739 when Hume's Treatise strangled it with its own cinctures after a period of Berkeley's optimistic idealism. The Empiricists collects the key writings on this important philosophy, perfect for those interested in learning ...

Key themes and ideas in "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge" include:Immaterialism/Idealism: Berkeley's central thesis is the denial of the existence of material substance. He argues that physical objects, as traditionally conceived, do not exist independently of the mind perceiving them. Instead, he posits that reality consists of mental or spiritual entities (ideas) and the minds that perceive them. This position is often summarized by his famous dictum: "To be is to...

Berkeley's idealism started a revolution in philosophy. As one of the great empiricist thinkers he not only influenced British philosophers from Hume to Russell and the logical positivists in the twentieth century, he also set the scene for the continental idealism of Hegel and even the philosophy of Marx. There has never been such a radical critique of common sense and perception as that given in Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge (1710). His views were met with disfavour, ...

George Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Irish philosopher, an anglican bishop and one of the three great British empiricists along with John Locke and David Hume. Ignored and derided in life, he is now widely re-evaluated and considered as a sort of indirect precursor of Ernst Mach, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr for his thesis on the non-existence of matter and the impossibility of an objectively absolute time and space. His critiques of mathematics and science are among the most controversial...

George Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Irish philosopher, an anglican bishop and one of the three great British empiricists along with John Locke and David Hume. Ignored and derided in life, he is now widely re-evaluated and considered as a sort of indirect precursor of Ernst Mach, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr for his thesis on the non-existence of matter and the impossibility of an objectively absolute time and space. His critiques of mathematics and science are among the most controversial...

A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge examines the roots of knowledge and the reality that shapes perception. The book delves into the question of true existence, proposing that the outside world is not formed of material objects independent of observation but consists entirely of ideas linked to perceiving minds. It challenges traditional philosophy by urging that material things cannot be thought of apart from direct experience and that abstract ideas, when separated fr...

Although there are several excellent persons of the church of England, whose good intentions and endeavours have not been wanting to propagate the gospel in foreign parts, who have even combined into societies for that very purpose, and given great encouragement, not only for English missionaries in the West-Indies, but also, for the reformed of other nations, led by their example, to propagate christianity in the East: It is nevertheless acknowledged, that there is at this day, but little...

The querist presents a series of philosophical questions that addresses the socio-economic challenges facing Ireland, focusing on the nature of wealth, poverty, and industry. Through these carefully posed queries, the work encourages reflection on whether prosperity which can coexist with widespread idleness, the root causes of poverty in a society where basic needs are met, and how government policies might effectively promote industry and economic growth. The treatise questions conventio...