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Bishop Berkeley is the lead example, within academia today, of the metaphysical belief of idealism. His "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge" can be summed up in a single phrase: "esse est percipi", meaning, all that is is perceived.
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Responding to Berkeley's Likeness principle
I would really appreciate some ideas regarding possible responses to Berkeley's Likeness principle as an attack against representative/indirect realism. My understanding of the role of the Likeness ...
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Is Moral Attraction the Key to Avoiding Berkeleyean Solipsism?
Bishop Berkeley’s philosophy is often characterized as idealist, but this is a hasty generalization and false advertising. It is deeply empirical, grounded in observations about human perception and ...
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is subjective idealism or solipsism debunked because of the existence of "Brain" and "Surprise"? related to mind- body problem
reading this might help you understand my point
Idealism, Narrative and the Mind-Brain Relation
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44807008
how does someone like Berkeley explain the fact that there is ...
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Did Berkeley change his mind on his latest work "Siris" (1774)?
While studying Bishop Berkeley in depth I have faced some interesting arguments regarding his philosophy is shifted and changed on his later life.
The main source of this argument is from his not ...
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How does Berkeley distinguish between illusion and reality and what are his arguments?
Does anyone know that how does he explains the effects of mind altering drugs according to his ideology? For example If God is the master perceiver, Does God also perceive the pink elephant or the ...
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If George Berkeley was an Anglican bishop, how his master arguments can be against biblical teachings which states that matter exists?
We all know that George Berkeley was a bishop.(Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland) However, how can a Christian ordained member of the clergy can make arguments against biblical ...
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How can this argument by the philosopher Berkeley in favor of idealism be resisted?
I'd like to know how the following argument by George Berkeley can be challenged:
(1) If primary qualities cannot be abstracted from secondary qualities, then
primary qualities cannot exist apart from ...
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Help sourcing a quote - "There is no doctrine so invalid..."
Recently a quote popped into my head, which I recall as a Bishop Berkeley proposition. But on further looking into the matter, I can't seem to find it. It's within the general area of the following:
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What does Kant refer to when writing about "dreaming (träumenden) idealism" and "visionary (schwärmenden) idealism"?
In Note III to §13 of the Prolegomena, Kant seems to be answering some critics that have compared his transcendental idealism to the philosophies of Descartes (at least the skeptical part of it) and ...
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A question about Berkeley's attack on Locke's distinction of primary and secondary qualities
I'm reading W. T. Jones account of Berkeley's theory, and I find that in general Berkeley convincingly demonstrated some weak points that are fundamental to Locke's theory. But there is one of his ...
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What exactly is an unthought-of object?
Hello fellow philosophers!
I'm currently in the process of reading about George Berkeley's Idealism.
At one point, it is mentioned that Berkeley's Master Argument fails due to a conflation of ...
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Does Locke's saying "the mind has no other immediate object but its own ideas …." deconstruct his own general theory and agree with Berkeley’s?
Locke says: "Since the mind ... hath no other immediate object but its own ideas, which it alone can contemplate, it is evident that our knowledge is only conversant about them."
If we take ...
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Does the Strong Anthropic Principle lead to Idealism?
I have to admit this question isn't very neatly thought out, but I've always been a bit puzzled by the Anthropic Principle. I realize there are various forms or "strengths" of the idea, and ...
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What's Kant defense of a noumenal world actually existing?
There is a sharp distinction according to most commentaries between Berkeley and Kant - and perhaps it's purely due to the fact that Kant doesn't render experience in-itself enough to make sense of ...
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Is there any inconsistency in Berkeley's philosophy?
Does Berkeley's empiricist philosophy contain any inconsistencies? What are the inconsistent sides of Locke's or Hume's philosophies? How is Berkeley's world different from a Matrix-like world?
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