Berkeley, Miscellaneous

Traducidas por primera vez al castellano, las siete obras que se presentan en este volumen buscan dar a conocer al lector de habla hispana la obra social y política de George Berkeley, el filósofo del inmaterialismo. // This volume contains the first translation into Spanish of Berkeley's social and political writings (Passive Obedience. Advice to the Tories. An Essay towards Preventing The Ruin Of Great Britain. Discourse to Magistrates. A word to the wise and Maxims Concerning Patriotism). The aim of (...) the volume is to provide Spanish speakers direct access to these works in their own language, allowing them to discover a different facet of Berkeley, one that reveals his concerns about the social and political situation in Ireland, Great Britain and the society of his time. (shrink)

This is a short scholarly note about my retrieval an original copy of the Daily Post-Boy issue no. 7024 from September 9th,1732 from a private seller. In this issue we find an anonymous letter addressed to Berkeley which gave rise to him writing the Theory of Vision Vindicated. While Berkeley Berkeley appended a copy of the anonymous critic’s letter to TVV, until now an original copy of The Daily Post-Boy issue had yet to be discovered. -/- I have donated the (...) original copy to the Marsh's Library in Dublin, but you will find a scan of the original document attached to the note. -/- . (shrink)