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.

"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

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

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Berkeley's Sermons on Passive Obedience in the Irish Context Science and Sociability: Berkeley's 'Bond of Society' Piety, Perception, and the Free-Thinkers Luxury, Moderation, and the South Sea Bubble Planting Religion in the New World, 1722-1732 Improving Ireland: Luxury, Virtue, and Economic Development Bishop of Cloyne: Protestantism, Patriotism, and a National Panacea