How long does it take to read A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge?
Alfred Klemmt, George Berkeley
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by Alfred Klemmt, George Berkeley takes about 2 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 43 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1710. 148 pages, about 40,700 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 49 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this exceptional work, Berkeley makes the striking claim that physical things consist of nothing but ideas and therefore do not exist outside the mind. This claim establishes him as the founder of the idealist tradition in philosophy. The text printed in the volume is the 1734 edition of the Principles, which represents Berkeley's mature thought. Also included are four important letters between George Berkeley and Samuel Johnson, written between 1799 and 1730. This edition of Berkeley's most famous work provides readers with a thorough introduction to the central ideas of tone of the world's greatest philosophers.
Subjects: Idealism, Sociology of Knowledge, Philosophy, Soul, Nonfiction, immaterialism
