Berkeley's Manuscript Introduction Digitized
This morning the digitization team at the Trinity College Library provided me with scans of the manuscript version of the Introduction to Berkeley's
Principles. The manuscript is significantly longer than the published version and contains some important material, as I discuss at some length in my
book. However, it has been widely known for some time that the transcription of the manuscript in the Luce and Jessop edition of Berkeley's
Works is unreliable. The excellent diplomatic edition prepared by Bertil Belfrage was printed in a run of only 500 copies in 1987, and hence is not widely available. In the coming months, I will be working to prepare a permanent online home for the manuscript. In the meantime, I am pleased to make it available
here.
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Princess Elisabeth's Refutation of Descartes
I also find that the senses show me that the soul moves the body, but they teach me nothing (no more than do the understanding and the imagination) of the way in which it does so. For this reason, I think that there are some properties of the soul, which are unknown to us, which could perhaps overturn what your Metaphysical Meditations persuaded me of by such good reasoning: the nonextendedness of the soul. This doubt seems to be founded on the rule that you give there, in speaking of the true and the false, that all error comes to...
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