GEORGE BERKELEY

(1685-1753)
INTRODUCTION

George Berkeley was born in or near Kilkenny, Ireland on

12 March 1685. He was raised in Dysart Castle. Although his
father was English, Berkeley always considered himself Irish.
In 1696, he entered Kilkenny College.

After completing his doctorate, he became a Senior

Fellow in 1717. As was common practice for British
academics at the time, Berkeley was ordained as an
Anglican priest in 1710.
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The works for which Berkeley is best known were written during his Trinity
College period. In 1709, he published An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision. In
1710, he published A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Part I.
In 1712, he published Passive Obedience, which focuses on moral and political
philosophy. In 1713, he published Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. In
1721, he published De Motu. In addition, there is a set of notebooks, often called the
Philosophical Commentaries (PC), that covers the period during which he developed
his idealism and immaterialism. These were personal notebooks, and he never
intended to publish them.

Berkeley
1. WHAT IS THE MOST FAMOUS
WORK OF GEORGE BERKELEY?

George Berkeley is known for his early works on

vision (An Essay towards a new theory of
vision,1709)and metaphysics (A Treatise concerning
the Principles of Human Knowledge, 1710; Three
Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous 1713
2. WHAT ARE THE PHILOSOPHIC
IDEAS THAT GEORGE BERKELEY
ESPOUSED?
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 IMMATERIALISM

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3. WHAT IS THE IMPLICATION OF THEIR PERSPECTIVE
ON YOUR VIEW ON KNOWLEDGE?
ARE YOU AND YOUR BELIEFS IN AGREEMENT?
WHY OR WHY NOT?
The perspective of George Berkeley has a big
contribute in our own view of knowledge. It is
because George Berkeley’s theory was all about
“immaterialism” or also known as “subjective
immaterialism”. This theory denies the existence of
material substance and instead contends that
familiar objects like tables and chairs are only ideas
in minds of the perceivers. And as a result, it cannot
exist without being perceived. And I agree of what
Berkeley’s theory wants to say. This theory can be
related to love. Because you do not know the
importance of your opposite sex if you don’t know
how much they mean to you. All the things that exist
are the idea of out mind that makes these things
become a real one.
4. HOW DO YOU RECONCILE YOUR BELIEF
WITH THEIRS AFTER WHAT YOU HAVE
LEARNED?

So for me, I believe that the theory of George Berkeley

witness the rightness. I reconcile my belief in situation and
find a way in which they can true or acceptable. It took us how
to understand and learned this theory. George Berkeley has
different experiences and different works. It also gives is
information or skill.
 GENERALIZATION
According to Berkeley, the world consists of nothing but
minds and ideas. Ordinary objects are collections of ideas.
“Esse is percipi” (to be is to be perceived) is Berkeley’s famous
principle. TO EXIST AND TO BE PERCEIVED.