A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Part 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Part 1, 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, Part 1, by George Berkeley. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Commonly called "Treatise" when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 work by the Irish Empiricist philosopher George Berkeley. It largely seeks to refute the claims made by his contemporary John Locke about the nature of human perception. Whilst, like all the Empiricist philosophers, both Locke and Berkeley agreed that there was an outside world, and it was this world which caused the ideas one has within one's mind, Berkeley sought to prove that the outside world was also composed solely of ideas. Berkeley did this by suggesting that "Ideas can only resemble Ideas" - the mental ideas that we possessed could only resemble other ideas (not physical objects) and thus the external world consisted not of physical form, but rather of ideas. This world was given logic and regularity by some other force, which Berkeley concluded was God.

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Part 1
• Author credits: George Berkeley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 4:10:18

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• idealism
• psychology
• empiricism

Track guide

1. 01 - Front Matter/Preface — 4:46
2. 02 - Introduction — 45:56
3. 03 - Sections 01 to 14 — 19:33
4. 04 - Sections 15 to 29 — 16:41
5. 05 - Sections 30 to 44 — 18:07
6. 06 - Sections 45 to 59 — 20:52
7. 07 - Sections 60 to 70 — 14:33
8. 08 - Sections 71 to 84 — 15:30
9. 09 - Sections 85 to 99 — 14:55
10. 10 - Sections 100 to 114 — 22:05
11. 11 - Sections 115 to 129 — 23:00
12. 12 - Sections 130 to 144 — 15:55
13. 13 - Sections 145 to 156 — 18:31

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