Alciphron (book)
Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher is an philosophical dialogue by the 18th-century Irish philosopher George Berkeley wherein Berkeley combated the arguments of free-thinkers such as Mandeville and Shaftesbury against the Christian religion. It was first published in 1732.
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Alciphron title page (1732).
The dialogue is primarily between four characters, the free-thinkers Alciphron and Lysicles, Berkeley's spokesman Euphranor, and Crito, who serves as a spokesman for traditional Christianity. The mostly-silent narrator of the dialogue is given the name Dion.
Notes
- See David Kline, "Berkeley's Divine Language Argument" in Ernest Sosa, ed., Essays on the Philosophy of George Berkeley (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1987), repr. in David Berman, ed., Alciphron in Focus (London: Routledge, 1993).
- Anthony Flew, "Was Berkeley a Precursor of Wittgenstein?" in W. B. Todd, ed. Hume and the Enlightenment: Essays Presented to Ernest Campbell Mossner (Edinburgh: The University Press, 1974), repr. in Berman, ed., Alciphron.
- Margaret Bald (14 May 2014). Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds. Infobase Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-8160-7148-7.
- WorldCat https://www.worldcat.org/title/alciphron-or-the-minute-philosopher-in-seven-dialogues-containing-an-apology-for-the-christian-religion-against-those-who-are-called-free-thinkers/oclc/833957138
- David Berman, ed., Alciphron in Focus (London: Routledge, 1993).
- David Berman, ed., Alciphron in Focus (London: Routledge, 1993).
External links
- Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher 1803 ed. from Google Books
- Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher (The Works of George Berkeley. Ed. by Alexander Campbell Fraser. In 4 Volumes. Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1901) from Internet Archive
- Paraphrase of Alciphron at Early Modern Texts
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