Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher
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Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher
Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher (1732), George Berkeley's longest book and his most sustained defence of theism and of Christianity, consisting of seven dialogues in which Crito and Euphranor represent the author's position while Alciphron and Lysicles are the ‘minute philosophers’, taking the part of contemporary free-thinkers such as Mandeville and Shaftesbury.
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