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Recovering Bishop Berkeleyvirtue and society in the Anglo-Irish context /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Recovering Bishop BerkeleyScott Breuninger.
Reminder of title:	virtue and society in the Anglo-Irish context /
Author:	Breuninger, Scott.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2010.
Description:	x, 243 p.
Subject:	Virtue.
Subject:	IrelandHistory17th century.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230106468

Recovering Bishop Berkeleyvirtue and society in the Anglo-Irish context /
Breuninger, Scott.

Recovering Bishop Berkeleyvirtue and society in the Anglo-Irish context /[electronic resource] :Scott Breuninger. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2010. - x, 243 p. - Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history. - Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Berkeley's sermons on passive obedience in the Irish context -- Science and sociability: Berkeley's "bond of society" -- Piety, perception,and the freethinkers -- Luxury, moderation, and the South Sea Bubble -- Planting religion in the New World, 1722-32 -- Improving Ireland: luxury, virtue, and economic development -- Bishop of Cloyne: protestantism, patriotism, and a national panacea.

This book examines the Irish philosopher George Berkeley's contributions to debates concerning the role of virtue in society, which formed the foundation of his reputation as "the good bishop."Through a close analysis of key texts and the larger historical contexts within which they were composed, this study explores Berkeley's engagement with the social and economic threats facing Irelandand Britain, highlighting hisbelief that virtue and religion could help alleviate these problems. In doing so, Breuninger provides a more complete view of Berkeley's workoutside the realm of philosophyand thus broadens our understanding ofhis place in the early Enlightenment.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230106468Subjects--Personal Names:

179305
Berkeley, George,
1685-1753.Subjects--Topical Terms:

196661
Virtue.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

391959
Ireland
--History--17th century.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: B1348 / .B75 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 192

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