A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, credited to George Berkeley, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley. Read in English by Peter Tucker A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (commonly called Treatise when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 work, in English, by Irish Empiricist philosopher George Berkeley. This book largely seeks to refute the claims made by Berkeley's contemporary John Locke about the nature of human perception. Whilst, like all the Empiricist philosophers, both Locke and Berkeley agreed that we are having experiences, regardless of whether material objects exist, Berkeley sought to prove that the outside world (the world which causes the ideas one has within one's mind) is also composed solely of ideas. Berkeley did this by suggesting that "Ideas can only resemble Ideas" - the mental ideas that we possess can only resemble other ideas (not material objects) and thus the external world consists not of physical form, but rather of ideas. This world is (or, at least, was) given logic and regularity by some other force, which Berkeley concludes is God. ( Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
• Author credits: George Berkeley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 3:38:05

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• Britain
• ideas
• existence
• empiricist

Track guide

1. 00 - Dedication — 3:45
2. 01 - Introduction — 41:05
3. 02 - Of the Principles of Human Knowledge Part 1 — 29:15
4. 03 - Of the Principles of Human Knowledge Part 2 — 28:46
5. 04 - Of the Principles of Human Knowledge Part 3 — 28:01
6. 05 - Of the Principles of Human Knowledge Part 4 — 28:47
7. 06 - Of the Principles of Human Knowledge Part 5 — 30:05
8. 07 - Of the Principles of Human Knowledge Part 6 — 28:21

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