Place
Dublin
Capital of Ireland, birthplace of George Berkeley and Edmund Burke, and a lively node of the eighteenth-century British intellectual world.
Thinkers Connected to Dublin
George Berkeley
To be is to be perceived. He argued matter does not exist, and dared anyone to refute him.
Edmund Burke
He defended liberty and reviled the French Revolution in the same breath, and so fathered modern conservatism.
John Scotus Eriugena
The lone genius of the dark centuries, who read Greek when almost no one in the West could, and dared to fold God and creation into a single nature.