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Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous Penguin Classics George Berkeley Roger Woolhouse 9780140432930 Books Reviews

Dear translator,
How do you do it? You take seemingly mundane texts like "Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonus" and turn them into hilarious works of absurdity. Before, I had never understood Hylas's objection to Philonus's Pain/Pleasure argument. His sentence structure was just TOO coherent--I think the fault was in my translation. But after reading your version I finally get it! Particularly when he says "Hold, Philonus, I now see what it was delude time. You asked whether heat and cold, sweetness at were not particular sorts of pleasure and pain; to which simply, that they were." (verbatim quote, Location 188) This is one of literally hundreds of quirky changes you made that make the text so much easier to understand! Even on the first page your original interpretation shines through with every sentence! Unfortunately, I don't have time to pinpoint every little gem of genius you put into this book, but any reader who wants to should download this book and see for themselves what this text has to offer. I can't ever imagine why it's free!
Sincerely,
A person who understands the English language
Not my cup of tea. Some good reflective points, but in all I found the translation and wording to be too laborious.
I may have paid too much for a used book but it is in good condition; and how often will I be able to find a copy of a lesser-known 18th century philosopher's work?
Quantum physicists are starting to discover that Bishop Berkeley's radical idealism was essentially correct. Well, in the sense that matter is the ultimate occult substratum at least.
This is a wonderful little book. However clever Kant may have been, prose style took a turn for the worse in his systematic treatment. Berkeley, by contrast, is a great writer, and these dialogues brim with wit and charm.

Many of the arguments that Berkeley puts forward in these dialogues will seem very strange to a modern reader who is used to the discoveries of the natural sciences; and it is certainly true that many of Berkeley’s arguments against materialism are fallacious. Nonetheless, Berkeley’s thinking was a giant leap forward from Locke’s (whose position is represented by Hylas), and is in many ways strikingly modern.

Here is the best way I can frame it for the philosophical debuttante. Philosophers have long had the nasty habit of positing unknowable metaphysical entities to account for the world. In Aristotelian and Cartesian conceptions, this was simply ‘substance’; in Leibniz, it was the ‘monads’; in Locke—Berkeley’s main opponent—it was ‘primary qualities’; and in Kant, it was ‘noumena’. These entities are, as it were, conjured up by the philosopher’s magic wand to account for the existence of matter, as an underlying substratum that is forever unknowable to us puny mortals.

Berkeley pulls this position to pieces, and for good reason. Why conjure up a mysterious ‘substance’ or ‘primary quality’ with no discernible characteristics? It is only a name we give to the unknown. Instead, Berkeley argues, we should concentrate on what we can access with our senses. ‘Matter’ is not some ghost-like thing without extension of weight, but is instead what we normally take for granted as matter—something with weight, extension, that exists in space and time.

Believe it or not, Hylas's argument was the same intellectual trap that Immanuel Kant fell into almost one hundred years later when he posited the unknowable ‘things-in-themselves’ (or noumena) that do not exist in space or time. If you substitute ‘noumena’ for ‘matter’ in these dialogues, you can see how far ahead of his time was Berkeley. Indeed, near the beginning of the 20th century, Edmund Husserl and Bertrand Russell—two of the most influential philosophers of the last 100 years—held a similar position, known as phenomenalism. Such a perspective is also conducive to science, because it shifts the emphasis away from metaphysics to physics.

To sum up, Berkeley is a great writer and a penetrating thinker. The dialogues are short and entertaining; and, when stripped of some of their fallacies, most of his arguments still relevant today.
This is a good foundation book for anyone who is a Non Dual seeker.
Interesting philosophical questions. Relatively easy read.
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