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I can indicate the main aims of this chapter by explaining its title. By ‘Irish Philosophy, Past’, I understand that period when Ireland was at the cutting edge of world philosophy. This was the golden age, which was born with John Toland’s Christianity not Mysterious (1696), grew with the answers to his challenge by Peter Browne, William King and Edward Synge, and culminated in the work of Hutcheson, Burke and especially Berkeley, and then came to a close in the late 1750s.
An early version of this essay was read at the opening of the TCD Berkeley Conference, at the Royal Irish Academy, in 2014. An even earlier version was read as the keynote lecture at a conference on Irish philosophy at Maynooth.
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I discuss Berkeley’s esotericism in some detail in my George Berkeley: Idealism and the Man, 1994, chap. two.
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See my History of Atheism in Britain: from Hobbes to Russell, 1988, chap. 3.
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For more details on the Art of Theological Lying, see Chap 3.
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Berman, D. (2021). Berkeley and Toland: Irish Philosophy, Past and Future. In: Consciousness from Descartes to Ayer. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80921-8_2
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