George Berkeley
George Berkeley was an eighteenth-century Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop, best known for his theory that material objects exist only as perceptions in the mind—summarized as "to be is to perceive or be perceived." His idealist philosophy challenged assumptions about the external world and influenced later thinkers.
Berkeley, California, and its university are named for him.
- immaterialismDoctrine denying physical substance
- perceivedBecame aware of
- empiricismKnowledge through observation
- bishopDiocesan clergy head
- philosopherStudent of fundamental questions
Immanuel Kant · sensory experience · abstract ideas · solipsism · metaphysics · epistemology · idealism · Dublin · Trinity · God · mind · ontology · perception · Hume · reality · Ireland · subjective · vision
- philosophyethics, logic, metaphysics, ontology, epistemology
- British PhilosophyJohn Locke, Bertrand Russell, David Hume, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hobbes
- Irish Thinkers
- Berkeley philosophyimmaterialism, idealism, anti-materialism
- Irish WritersJames Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, Jonathan Swift
- empiricismempiricism, positivism, empirical research, inductive reasoning, Vienna Circle
metaphysical position
George BerkeleyThomas Hobbes
English political philosopher
Democritus · materialism · physicalism · Epicurus · Karl Marx