| An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision Contributor(s): Berkeley, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 1612039812 ISBN-13: 9781612039817 Publisher: Spastic Cat Press OUR PRICE: $11.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General - Religion | Christian Living - General - Religion | Education |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 5" W x 8" (0.25 lbs) 106 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision George Berkeley weaves a theory that depends on God's existence, and is shockingly difficult to refute. The problems he poses are immensely difficult, and still being answered. George Berkeley was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism". This theory denies the existence of material substance and instead contends that familiar objects like tables and chairs are only ideas in the minds of perceivers, and as a result cannot exist without being perceived. Thus, as Berkeley famously put it, for physical objects "esse est percipi" ("to be is to be perceived"). |
