The former Berkeley library opened in 1967 as the “New Library” and was renamed after the 18th century Irish philosopher and former Trinity College Dublin...
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George Berkeley, born in Kilkenny in 1685, was a theologian and philosopher who spent most of his life studying and working in Trinity.
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George Berkeley is Ireland's best-known philosopher. Born in 1685, he attended Kilkenny College before heading up to TCD at 15.
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Founders' Rock is an outcropping at the northeast corner of the UC Berkeley campus, where Gayley Road and Hearst Avenue meet, a lonely spot...
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Bishop George Berkeley stands at the front of the Berkeley dining hall, frozen in a faded and red painting. As students enter, they glance...
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Berkeley justified slavery as a path to Christian conversion, and while his views were relatively orthodox at the time, there were contemporaries of his who...
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Imagine Locke and Berkeley enjoying a stroll together around Oxford's Christ Church Meadow, talking philosophy. Biting into an apple from one of the trees,...
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No one disputes that George Berkeley was among Ireland's greatest thinkers, but he was also an unapologetic slaver. Now, Trinity College...
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This February, the OUP Philosophy team honours George Berkeley (1685-1753) as their Philosopher of the Month. An Irish-born philosopher,...
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University said 18th-century philosopher and bishop bought enslaved people to work on his Rhode Island estate.
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