Tag: Berkeley

• Was the Bishop a Complete Idiot? (ii)

  The previous post was about how Bishop Berkeley was right (if properly understood) when he said that whatever is not being perceived does not exist. There indeed is a sense in which what we call the Moon is not ‘there’, when no one is looking at it – when no human mind is converting the…

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  15th Jul 2022

  Christianity, Consciousness, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Berkeley, Energy, God, Limerick, Mind, Moon, Reality, Religion, Samuel Johnson, Sub-atomic physics

• Common Sense? I

  Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753) is famous, or infamous, for arguing that esse est percipi – “to be is to be perceived”. What we humans experience as material objects exist solely in our perceptions of them. In other words, there are no material objects as such, but only minds (human and divine) containing mental ‘representations’. Hence…

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  28th Nov 2021

  Buddhism, Consciousness, Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Berkeley, Dr. Johnson, illusion, Materialism, Mind, Reality