The Rhetoric of Berkeley's PhilosophyCambridge University Press, 31.08.1990 - 205 Seiten The works of George Berkeley (1685-1753) have been the object of much philosophical analysis; but philosophers are writers as well as thinkers, and Berkeley was himself positively interested in the functions of language and style. He recognized that words are used not just to convey ideas, but to stir the emotions and influence the behaviour of the hearer or reader. The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy, first published in 1990, offers rhetorical and literary analyses of his four major philosophical texts, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, Alciphron and Siris. The Berkeley that emerges from this study is an accomplished stylist, one who builds structures of affective imagery, who creates dramatic voices in his texts, and who masters the range of philosophical genres - the treatise, the dialogue and the essay. Above all, Berkeley's awareness of the rhetorical functions of language is everywhere evident in his own style. His texts persuade as well as prove, enacting a process of inquiry so that the reader may, in the end, grasp Berkeley's truths as his own. |
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Ideas and the ends of language | 15 |
Locke roles and passion | 29 |
The ends of morality and religion | 36 |
Metaphor and the evidence of things not seen | 53 |
The opportunities of dialogue | 61 |
The character of the elenchus | 68 |
Comic characters | 82 |
26 | 89 |
36 | 107 |
Argument into satire | 117 |
Conversations with ingenious | 123 |
The rude essay | 141 |
The method of inductive analogy | 157 |
The hoary maxims of the ancients | 173 |
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