George Berkeley
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Philosophy of Mind
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Synopsis:
  • Idealism
  • Critique of Newtonian world: matter does not even exist
  • All we know is our perceptions
  • We cannot directly know that there is an external world ("esse est percipi")
  • Reality is inside our mind: an object is an experience
  • The whole universe is a set of experiences
  • The only thing that exists is the experiences of our mind
  • The only thing that exists is mind
  • The soul always thinks
  • The world is exactly how it appears: it "is" what appears, and it is inside our mind
  • Our mind rules ideas
  • Reality consists of finite, created minds; an infinite, uncreated mind; ideas
  • Objects do not exist apart from a subject that thinks them.

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