Bishop Berkeley

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1685-1753

British Empiricist

historical figures

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idealism

  • MIND rather than matter = source of reality

  • subjective idealism DOES NOT mean nothing external exists

  • perception = reality


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conclusions

  • God causes perceptions

  • God = external

  • all reality = Mind of God

  • we participate in His mind

  • experience = master but we turn it all around


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influence

  • influenced structuralists + introspection method

  • ideas are formed through experience (so still empirical)


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How does Berkeley compare to previous philosophers?

  • Descartes: perception = reality, so we can trust our senses

  • Hobbes: agrees with empiricism (ideas form through experience)

  • Locke: agrees with concept of mind + ideas it is furnished with