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Sep 10, 2004 · George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, was one of the great philosophers of the early modern period. He was a brilliant critic of his predecessors, particularly Descartes, Malebranche, and Locke. He was a talented metaphysician famous for defending idealism, that is, the view that reality consists exclusively of minds and their ideas.
- Idealism
Wolff’s way of classifying a philosophical system was...
- Malebranche, Nicolas
In 1693, Malebranche responded to the criticisms of the...
- Locke, John
John Locke (b. 1632, d. 1704) was a British philosopher,...
- Hume, David
Bibliography Primary Literature Hume’s Works. The standard...
- Idealism
George Berkeley (/ ˈ b ɑːr k l i / BARK-lee; 12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753) – known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland) – was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others).
Anglo-Irish Anglican bishop, philosopher, and scientist best known for his empiricist and idealist philosophy, which holds that reality consists only of minds and their ideas; everything save the spiritual exists only insofar as it is perceived by the senses.
Berkeley is best known for his early works on vision ( An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision, 1709) and metaphysics ( A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, 1710; Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, 1713).
Jan 31, 2024 · George Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Anglo-Irish bishop and an empiricist and idealist philosopher. He infamously claimed that no matter exists outside of God and that things only exist outside of our minds and perceptions because God perceives them.
- Mark Cartwright
Aug 5, 2008 · The works of George Berkeley by Berkeley, George, 1685-1753; Fraser, Alexander Campbell, 1819-1914
Apr 22, 2019 · George Berkeley’s (1685–1753 ce) most lasting philosophical legacies are his immaterialism – the denial of the existence of matter – and his idealism, the positive doctrine that reality is constituted by spirits and their ideas.
