Project Gutenberg 2003-12-01 Public domain in the USA. 602 Berkeley, George 1685 1753 Berkley, George Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists Produced by Col Choat. HTML version by Al Haines. "Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous" by George Berkeley is a philosophical work written in the early 18th century. The book takes the form of a dialogue between two characters, Hylas and Philonous, who discuss the nature of reality, skepticism, and the existence of material substances. The central theme revolves around Berkeley's idealist philosophy, which argues against the existence of material substances independent of perception, challenging the foundation of skeptical thought. At the start of the dialogues, Philonous and Hylas engage in a conversation that explores the implications of skepticism and the nature of perception. Hylas initially expresses his concerns about the troubling ideas some philosophers propose, which undermine common beliefs. The dialogue quickly delves into the debate over material substance, with Philonous advocating that only ideas exist in the mind and that material objects cannot exist independently of being perceived. Hylas grapples with these concepts, ultimately revealing contradictions in traditional notions of matter and raising the question of the relationship between sensation and reality. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Soul Idealism B Text Harvard Classics Philosophy Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal 258337 257439 2024-10-02T13:50:02.071431 2023-10-02T11:36:31.654040 text/html text/html 253166 2020-12-28T06:42:33 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 80163 2020-12-28T06:42:33 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 190573 2024-10-02T13:50:09.838408 application/epub+zip 192431 2024-10-02T13:50:06.091434 application/epub+zip 141724 2024-10-02T13:50:04.713455 application/epub+zip 445106 2024-10-02T13:50:12.431376 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 436218 2024-10-02T13:50:08.967433 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 203738 2022-09-03T04:04:34.964351 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 230073 230040 2024-10-02T13:50:01.484446 2023-10-02T11:36:31.199976 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 229939 2020-12-28T06:42:33 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 78298 2020-12-28T06:42:33 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19982 2024-10-02T13:50:12.557372 application/rdf+xml 25351 2024-10-02T13:50:05.278432 image/jpeg 4730 2024-10-02T13:50:04.994433 image/jpeg 188693 2024-10-02T13:50:02.092455 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia