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George Berkeley
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George Berkeley
A critique of the theory of immaterialism from the philosopher, George Berkeley's "Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous".
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages) |
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1993
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"This study will explain the objection to George Berkeley's theory that the theory gives dreams and hallucinations as much claim to truth as our ordinary waking experiences. The study will also describe and evaluate Berkeley's response in defense of his theory.Berkeley enters tenuous philosophical territory and invites such criticism when he argues that there is no such thing as matter, as material existence. The realm of the mind is abstract enough without removing the world of matter and placing all reality in the mind, even if that mental territory includes the mind of God. Other philosophers used the material world to at least ground the mind, but Berkeley is trying to argue that all reality is immaterial. Berkeley's theory is slippery enough when we limit ourselves to the activities of the sober, sane mind which..."
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