Samuel Johnson byl horlivým stoupencem Berkeleye. S Berkeleyem ho pojila nejen korespondence, ale i osobní styk z doby Berkeleyova pobytu v Americe v letech 1729–1731. [8 ] Johnson, tak jako Berkeley, zavrhoval objektivní realitu hmoty.
Johnson popsal jejich společné cesty v knize A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. James Boswell o něm později napsal ceněnou biografii The Life of Samuel Johnson.
His biography described Johnson's life, including previously unknown details about his writing career, but it was plagued by digressions into unrelated topics.
William SamuelJohnson (October 7, 1727 – November 14, 1819) was an American Founding Father and statesman. He attended all of the four founding American Congresses: the Stamp Act Congress in 1765, the Congress of the Confederation in 1785…
Samuel Johnson (18. září 1709, Lichfield, Spojené království – 13. prosince 1784, Londýn, Spojené království) byl anglický básník, esejista, literární kritik a lexikograf, vůdčí duch pozdního anglického klasicismu.
Dr Johnson modelled his poem The Vanity of Human Wishes on Juvenal's tenth satire, but adapted to his own time. A detailed comparison shows that the Romans had a different kind of relationship with their gods from that of Christians; that…