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Alciphron (book)

Overview

Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher is a philosophical dialogue by the 18th-century Irish philosopher George Berkeley wherein Berkeley combated the arguments of free-thinkers such as Mandeville and Shaftesbury against the Christian religion. It was completed in 1731, and first published in 1732.

The dialogue is primarily between four characters, the free-thinkers Alciphron and Lysicles, Berkeley's spokesman Euphranor, and Crito, who serves as a spokesman for traditional Christianity. The mostly-silent narrator of the dialogue is given the name Dion.

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Philosophers who discussed Alciphron (book)

• George Berkeley

Related ideas

• George Berkeley
• Dialogue
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)
• Philosophical Investigations
• Religion
• Protestantism
• Teleological argument
• Christianity
• Bernard Mandeville
• Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
• Catholic Church
• Existence of God
• Rationalism
• Samuel Johnson (American educator)

Place in the tradition

Part of Empiricism.

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