George Berkeley
R00054George Berkeley (1685-1753) was born in County Kilkenny, Ireland, and
died in Oxford, England. He was an Irish philosopher famed for his attacks on
materialism. In 1707, he was made a fellow of Trinity College in Dublin and shortly
afterwards was ordained in the Anglican Church. During his fellowship, he wrote some of
his most influential works: An Essay Towards a New Theory of
Vision (1709), Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human
Knowledge (1710), and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and
Philonous (1713). In 1728, he left Ireland for America, spending three years
in Newport, Rhode Island, waiting for funding to build a college in Bermuda. When the
funding didn't materialize, he returned to Ireland and was ordained Bishop of Cloyne in
1734, a position he held until his passing.
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George Berkeley
R00054George Berkeley (1685-1753) was born in County Kilkenny, Ireland, and
died in Oxford, England. He was an Irish philosopher famed for his attacks on
materialism. In 1707, he was made a fellow of Trinity College in Dublin and shortly
afterwards was ordained in the Anglican Church. During his fellowship, he wrote some of
his most influential works: An Essay Towards a New Theory of
Vision (1709), Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human
Knowledge (1710), and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and
Philonous (1713). In 1728, he left Ireland for America, spending three years
in Newport, Rhode Island, waiting for funding to build a college in Bermuda. When the
funding didn't materialize, he returned to Ireland and was ordained Bishop of Cloyne in
1734, a position he held until his passing.
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