A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-28

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00:01:14 1 Content
00:01:24 1.1 Introduction
00:02:59 2 Part I (Note: Part II was never published)
00:03:11 2.1 "To be" means "to be perceived"
00:05:48 2.2 Locke's primary and secondary qualities
00:07:11 2.3 Number
00:07:44 2.4 Sensed qualities are mental
00:09:23 2.5 Meaning of imaterial substance/i
00:10:23 2.6 Knowledge of external objects
00:12:00 2.7 Berkeley's challenge
00:13:23 2.8 Absolute existence
00:13:51 2.9 What causes ideas?
00:15:48 2.10 Natural laws
00:16:52 2.11 Strong and faint ideas
00:17:41 2.12 13 Objections to Berkeley's principles
00:17:53 2.12.1 Objection 1
00:19:13 2.12.2 Objection 2
00:19:47 2.12.3 Objection 3
00:20:31 2.12.4 Objection 4
00:21:28 2.12.5 Objection 5
00:22:16 2.12.6 Objection 6
00:22:59 2.12.7 Objection 7
00:23:36 2.12.8 Objection 8
00:24:17 2.12.9 Objection 9
00:25:07 2.12.10 Objection 10
00:25:57 2.12.11 Objection 11
00:27:00 2.12.12 Objection 12
00:27:33 2.12.13 Objection 13
00:28:19 2.13 Consequences
00:28:34 2.13.1 Banished questions
00:29:04 2.13.2 We can know only ideas and spirits
00:29:24 2.13.3 Ideas, or unthinking things
00:35:24 2.13.4 Spirits, or thinking things
00:37:34 2.14 Main purpose
00:38:29 3 See also



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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.