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Overview
Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher (1732) is Berkeley's main work of philosophical theology and a crucial source of his views on meaning and language. This edition contains the four most important dialogues and a selection of critical essays and commentaries reflecting the response of such writers as Hutcheson, Mill and Antony Flew. The only single edition currently in print, it argues that Alciphron has a more important place both in the Berkeley canon and in early modern philosophy than is generally thought.
Synopsis
George Berkeley Alciphron in Focus contains the four most important dialogues of George Berkeley's Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher (1732), together with essays and commentaries from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Alciphron is Berkeley's most sustained
work of philosophical theology, and contains his final views of meaning and language, some of which anticipate those of Wittgenstein. In Alciphron, Berkeley develops one of the last great philosophical defenses of religion and provides a shrewd account of the rise and nature of deism and
atheism.
In his introduction, David Berman shows that Alciphron has a closer connection with Berkeley's Immaterialist philosophy than is generally thought. The only edition available of Alciphron, this book also includes critical essays which will assist the student in evaluating the theoretical
importance of Berkeley's work.