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Title: Philosophical Works: Including the Works on Vision (Everyman's Library) by George Berkeley, Michael R. Ayers ISBN: 0-460-87343-1 Publisher: Everymans Library Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Western Parallels to Buddhist thought
Comment: How can a thoughtful person dismiss Berkeley's position as tenuous? An argument that can be easily destroyed by even an amateur philosopher? I think not. Anyone interested in Eastern thought will immediately see the parallel to "Maya." Unfortunately the subject seems to threaten pseudointellectual atheists and agnostics. On the other hand, Berkeley's thought arises perenially in pop culture as in the works of Phillip K Dick, and more recently, the Matrix trilogy.

Rating: 5
Summary: Impressive, very lucid and worth reading!
Comment: This book has proven to me to be one of the best philosophical works from the 18th century. Its clearness and lucidness surpasses many of the philosophers of that period. Even though Berkeley's theory and arguments may be considered most radical, he explains them with great care and you can almost take them for a fact.

Berkeley's concepts can be only examined out of pure reason basically, since his theory rest merely on speculative thought. Nor is it possible to show any concrete proof for his arguments, however I find it much harder to disapprove his concepts since it all depends on rational thinking and not material evidence. His views provoke an exciting approach to a new metaphysics and reality.

This book should be read with the utmost clearness of mind, and one must eliminate all prejudice from the mind. Although a fairly easy book to read, one must dedicate time to deep reflection when considering its arguments.

I highly recommend this book for those interested in philosophy, specially in metaphysics, this is a must-read!

Rating: 4
Summary: A great alternative.
Comment: Berkeley is one of the great philosophers, although arguably the one whose position as one is the most tenuous. His argument is that matter doesn't exist, and all there is are ideas and impressions that comes to us from God. It's an argument that can be easily destroyed by even an amateur philosopher, but Berkeley writes so beautifully that he does at least make you stop and consider, if only for a moment, that perhaps he may just be right. He's worth reading if only for entertainment - I have to say that I think he is the best writer of all the great philosophers (except possibly Nietzsche), even though his system is the one I like the least.

If you are studying Berkeley seriously then it would be best to get the Oxford editions of his Principals and Three Dialogues. They contain much longer and better introductions and numerous other notes. But it may also be worth your money to buy this book too. Although the majority of this book is the two works just mentioned, also included in this collection are several other rare works of Berkeley's including his notebooks and De Motu among others. It's extremely difficult to get hold of these outside of the reprint of the 1901 Collected Works, and so if like me you don't have $450 to throw around, this is your best option, especially since it is so cheap.