![]() ![]() To understand the significance of immaterialism/idealism for Berkeley, it is necessary to fill in more of his historical context.īerkeley was born in 1685 near Kilkenny, Ireland. Nothing could have been further from his intentions Berkeley saw his idealism as being reconcilable with common sense and, more importantly, as providing a weapon against both skepticism and atheism. Berkeley was in his own lifetime often dismissed as a skeptical purveyor of paradoxes. However, he would be dismayed, if not surprised, to see the extent to which his idealistic system is still commonly regarded as unacceptably counterintuitive. This is as Berkeley would have wanted it he clearly viewed the thesis that esse est percipi aut percipere (to be is to be perceived or to perceive) as his central philosophical insight, one which would revolutionize philosophy. ![]() 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. ![]()
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