Download or read book Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (Classic Reprint) written by George Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous The bulk of the introductory matter requisite to an understanding of Berkeley's Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous has already been given in the Preface to his Principles of Human Knowledge (No. 48 of the Religion of Science Library), which is supposed to be in the hands of the reader, and to which he is referred. It remains for us in this place simply to supply a few general characterisations and to refer again to Berkeley's relations to Hume and to modern psychology. We also take advantage of this opportunity to reproduce two illustrations of Berkeley's Rhode Island home, which will impart a human interest to our little work, and bring it nearer to our American readers. It was in Rhode Island that Alciphron was composed, - dialogues "better fitted than any in our language to enable the English reader to realise the charm of Cicero and Plato... In Rhode island. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.