George Berkeley

George Berkeley
George Berkeley
	Portrait o Berkeley bi John Smybert, 1727
Born	12 Mairch 1685; Coonty Kilkenny, Ireland
Dee'd	14 Januar 1753 (aged 67); Oxford, Ingland
Naitionality	Irish
Alma mater	Trinity College, Dublin (BA 1704; MA 1707)
Era	18t century filosofie
Region	Wastren Filosofie
Schuil	Idealism; Empiricism
Main interests	Christianity, metapheesics, epistemology, leid, mathematics, perception
Notable ideas	Subjective idealism, master argument
	Influences John Locke, Isaac Newton, Nicolas Malebranche;
	Influenced David Hume, Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Reid, Arthur Schopenhauer, John Stuart Mill, Ernst Mach, A. J. Ayer, Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett, Francis Bowen, Borden Parker Bowne;
Signatur

George Berkeley (/ˈbɑːrkli/;^[1]^[2] 12 Mairch 1685 – 14 Januar 1753) — kent as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop o Cloyne) — wis an Erse filosofer whase primar achievement wis the advancement o a theory he cried "immaterialism" (later referred tae as "subjective idealism" bi ithers). This theory denies the exeestence o material substance an insteid contends that familiar objects lik tables an chairs are anly ideas in the minds o perceivers an, as a result, canna exeest withoot bein perceived. Berkeley is an aa kent for his critique o abstraction, an important premise in his argument for immaterialism.

References

↑ Watson, Richard A. (1993–94). "Berkeley Is Pronounced Barclay" (PDF). Berkeley Newsletter (13): 1–3. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 3 Julie 2013. Retrieved 8 November 2010.
↑ "Berkeley" entry in Collins English Dictionary, HarperCollins Publishers, 1998.

[1] Watson, Richard A. (1993–94). "Berkeley Is Pronounced Barclay" (PDF). Berkeley Newsletter (13): 1–3. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 3 Julie 2013. Retrieved 8 November 2010.

[2] "Berkeley" entry in Collins English Dictionary, HarperCollins Publishers, 1998.

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