1710

Showing 7 works across all media from 1710

Nonfiction · Philosophy

Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues

George Berkeley

1710 · 217 pages

Nothing exists but minds and what minds perceive, Berkeley argues, and matter is a word philosophers cannot cash. God does the perceiving that keeps your furniture there once you leave the room.

★ 6.3

Nonfiction · Philosophy

Philosophical Essays

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

1710 · 366 pages

Reality is made of monads, mind-like simple substances with no windows, whose perceptions God synchronized in advance. His conclusion that ours is the optimal world drew Voltaire's ridicule in Candide.

★ 6.3

Essay · Philosopical literature

It may be said likewise in respect of perfect wisdom, which is no less orderly than mathematics, that if there were not the best among all possible worlds, God would not have produced any.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Theodicy · 1710

★ 5.2

Letter

Men are vile inconstant toads.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

1710

★ 3.7

Play · Comedy (play) · Comedy

There is a very pretty Collection of Prints in the next Room, Madam, will you give me leave to explain them to you?

Susanna Centlivre

1710

★ 3.6

Philosophical literature

All the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth-in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world-have not any subsistence without a mind... Their being is to be perceived or known.

George Berkeley

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge · 1710

★ 1.9

Treatise · Philosophical literature

What do we perceive besides our own ideas or sensations?

George Berkeley

1710

★ 1.2