Metaphysics

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

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George Berkeley

1713 · 84 pages

Berkeley’s immaterialism recast as living conversation. Over three morning walks, Philonous leads the common-sense materialist Hylas, step by patient step, to the conclusion that matter is an incoherent fiction — and that far from breeding scepticism, the mind-dependence of sensible things is the surest defence of common sense and of God.