Dialogue between Berkeley and Hume

Hume Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 99-127

  Ancillon, Louis Frédéric ^a   Stanley, Charlotte ^a  

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DOI: 10.1353/hms.2011.0291     Document Type: Review

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1. The French edition of the Three Dialogues (Amsterdam, 1750) had a vignette at the beginning of the first chapter that showed a philosopher in his study who was looking at a child who was watching himself in a mirror and trying to touch himself. The philosopher laughs. But a line from Horace reverses the subject of ridicule: "Quid rides? . . . fabula de te Narratur" ["Who are you laughing at? ... the story is about you"].
2. This image is discussed by d'Alembert in "Corps," Encyclopédie, 1754, 4: 262.
3. See also Cicero, De Divinatione, II xxiv.
4. George Berkeley, Dialogues entre Hylas and Philonous, trans. Jean-Paul Gua de Malves (Amsterdam, 1750) [hereafter, Dialogues].
5. David Hume, Oeuvres philosophiques de M. D. Hume, trans. Jean Bernard Mérian and others, 5 vols. (Amsterdam, 1758-60).
6. This analogy is used in the "lettre-préface" to Descartes, Principes de la philosophie.
7. Cf. David Hume, Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals, ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge, 3rd ed., revised by P. H. Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975), 155n. The same sentiment was shared by Diderot, Saint-Hyacinthe, and d'Holbach.
8. Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (hereafter "Dialogues"), in The Works of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, ed. A. A. Luce and T. E. Jessop, 9 vols. (London: Nelson, 1948-57), 2: 117-8.
9. Dialogues, 197-8, 248-9 (Luce and Jessop, 2: 235, 251).
10. See also Principles of Human Knowledge §38.
11. This definition of idealism is adapted from Christian Wolff, Psychologia rationalis (Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1734), sect. I, chap. 1,43, p. 29
12. see also Vernünftige Gedanken von Gott, der Welt und der Seele des Menschen (Halle, 1720).
13. Molière, Le Misanthrope, act I, scene I.
14. see G. Tonelli, La pensée philosophique de Maupertuis (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1987), 10ff.
15. Dialogues, 74, 129 (Luce and Jessop, Works, 2: 195, 215).
16. A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge, 2nd ed., revised by P. H. Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978) 207-8, 236-9.
17. The Gua de Malves edition of the Dialogues has a Latin motto (175) that reads: "urget aquas vis sursum eadem, flectitque deorsum" ("It is the same force which made the water ascend and descend") and shows two men conversing in front of a fountain.
18. see Berkeley, Dialogues, 196-7 (Luce and Jessop, Works, 2: 235)
19. David Hume, Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding, the original title of the Enquiry concerning Human Understanding.
20. See Enquiries, ed. Selby-Bigge and Nidditch, 60-79.
21. On this vocabulary, see Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe (London, 1678).
22. Mythical king of Iolcos, father of Jason.
23. La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales, maxim 257.
24. Molière, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, act II, scene IV.