By Peter Walmsley
While earlier stories have made George Berkeley (1685-1753) the article of philosophical examine, Peter Walmsley assesses Berkeley as a author, delivering rhetorical and literary analyses of Berkeley's 4 significant philosophical texts, A Treatise about the ideas of Human wisdom, 3 Dialogues among Hylas and Philonous, Alciphron, and Siris. Berkeley emerges from this examine as an entire stylist who builds constructions of affective imagery, creates dramatic voices in his texts, and masters the diversity of philosophical genres--the treatise, the discussion, and the essay.
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The T which he carefully suppressed in section 9 is now the subject and opens most of the sentences followed by the main verb: 'I have', 'I can imagine', 'I can consider'. In the stylistic contrasts between these two juxtaposed sections Berkeley begins to make us attuned to the true voice of the Principles, the voice to which Berkeley most readily attaches T. This voice, free from the perplexities of philosophical abstraction, is direct and confident as it tells us what ideas it can have. In such passages as this Berkeley develops the plain style's most powerful qualitites, intimacy and immediacy.
There is no ontological commitment'. 18 But Woozley is none the less disappointed, for he finds that Berkeley does not consistently distinguish between knowing how to use spiritwords, and actually knowing spirit. Without explaining clearly how, Berkeley assures us that we do know mind, and that using spirit-words is somehow evidence of this. Where the notebooks had often complained of the scantiness of language, that we are often at a loss for words to convey our knowledge, Berkeley here appeals to common usage as a guide for discovering what we know and as a tool for bringing that knowledge to light.
13 While both these critics admirably capture the Principles vigorous engagement with the reader, they tend to slight its confident tone and its unwavering and often persuasive pursuit of its polemical ends. Did Berkeley truly expect his readers to meet the difficult challenge of laying aside his words in reading? Certainly the Introduction's invocation of the reader is, first and foremost, designed to prepare the ground for stripping away materialist language in Part I, a process which is instigated and controlled by the text, not the reader.