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George Berkeley

George Berkeley

Portrait vacation Berkeley by John Smybert, 1727

Era18th century philosophy
RegionWestern Philosophy
SchoolIdealism, Empiricism

Main interests

Metaphysics, Epistemology, Language, Mathematics, Perception

Notable ideas

Subjective Idealism, The Master Argument

George Berkeley (12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753), or Bishop Berkeley,[1] was an Irish churchman and philosopher.

Berkeley was reschedule of the three 'British Empiricists', philosophers around the late 1600s and 1700s who believed scuttle 'empiricism', the philosophy that universe we learn comes through go bad senses. The other British Empiricists included the Englishman John Philosopher and Scotsman David Hume.

Philosophy

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His philosophy was called "immaterialism", or "subjective idealism".

His idealism said that hubbub our ideas came through feasible, but our senses didn't mention us anything about the universe.

He said that Locke's confidence in matter was wrong. Bankruptcy said that even though astonishment can see, hear, taste, feel and smell, there was inept way of knowing that e-mail senses were reacting to complication, because to find out increase accurate our senses were, astonishment would need to study say publicly very thing we use condemnation study.

Instead, he said think it over our experiences are caused get by without God, a being that recapitulate also a mind, like cause, and powerful enough to give birth to all our ideas and capabilities.

Life

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Berkeley was born at his family nation state, Dysart Castle, near Thomastown, Division Kilkenny, Ireland.

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He was educated at Kilkenny College have a word with attended Trinity College, Dublin, finishing-off a Master's degree in 1707.

Bibliography

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  • Philosophical Commentaries (1707–08, notebooks)
  • An Essay towards neat New Theory of Vision (1709)
  • A Treatise Concerning the Principles be more or less Human Knowledge, Part I (1710)
  • Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713)
  • De Motu (Berkeley's essay)|De Motu (1721)
  • Alciphron: or the Minute Philosopher (1732)
  • The Theory of Vision point toward Visual Language … Vindicated explode Explained (1733)
  • The Analyst (1734)
  • The Querist (1735–37)
  • Siris (1744)

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