Through a close analysis of key texts and the larger historical contexts within which they were composed, this study explores George Berkeley's engagement with the social and economic threats facing Ireland and Britain, highlighting his belief that virtue and religion could play crucial roles in alleviating these problems.

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"Recovering Bishop Berkeley goes some way toward dispelling the notion of Berkeley as a disconnected, abstract philosopher and recovering the bishop who was very much engaged by the social and economic questions of his day." The Scriblerian

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SCOTT BREUNINGER is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Dakota, USA.

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Book Title: Recovering Bishop Berkeley
Book Subtitle: Virtue and Society in the Anglo-Irish Context
Authors: Scott Breuninger
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230106468
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10280-4Published: 14 May 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10646-8Published: 26 April 2010
Series ISSN: 2945-6630
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 243
Topics: Cultural History, History of Philosophy, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Science, Social History, Modern History

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