“In vain do we extend our view into the heavens, and pry into the entrails of the earth, in vain do we consult the writings of learned men, and trace the dark footsteps of antiquity; we need only draw the curtain of words, to behold the fairest tree of knowledge, whose fruit is excellent, and within the reach of our hand.” – George Berkeley , ‘Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues’
George Berkeley was born #OTD in 1685. Drawing on the empiricism of John Locke, he argued that there is no existence independent of subjective perception (esse est percipi).
Berkeley's idealism started a revolution in philosophy. As one of the great empiricist thinkers he not only influenced British philosophers from Hume to Russell and the logical positivists in the twentieth-century, he also set the scene for the continental idealism of Hegel and even the philosophy o...
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Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues
Berkeley's idealism started a revolution in philosophy. As one of the great empiricist thinkers he not only influenced British…
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