Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
work by Berkeley
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discussed in biography
- In George Berkeley: Period of his major works
His Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (1713), by its attractive literary form and its avoidance of technicalities, reinforced the main argument of the Principles. The two books speak with one voice about immaterialism.
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place in English literature
- In English literature: Shaftesbury and others
…of Human Knowledge (1710) and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (1713) continued the 17th-century debates about the nature of human perception, to which René Descartes and John Locke had contributed. The extreme lucidity and elegance of his style contrast markedly with the more-effortful but intensely earnest prose of Joseph…
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