George Berkeley
1685-1753
Irish Philosopher
George Berkeley is best remembered for his attempt to reconcile religion and science through his empiricist philosophy that separated a phenomenon's ...
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George Berkeley
1685-1753
Irish philosopher and Bishop of Cloyne known for his philosophico-scientific treatises. Berkeley argued that science, no less than religion, relies on metaphysical speculatio...
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Berkeley, George(1685–1753)
George Berkeley, the Irish philosopher of English ancestry, and Anglican bishop of Cloyne, was born at Kilkenny, Ireland. He entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1700 ...
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Berkeley, George [addendum]
George Berkeley believed that there are only minds and ideas. The existence of minds (or spirits or souls), Berkeley contended, consists in perceiving whereas the existence...
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Anglican bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753) developed a unique type of idealism based on an empirically oriented attack on abstract philosophizing combined with a defense of immaterialism.Although bor...
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Bishop Berkeley is undoubtedly more important to the history of philosophy than to American literary and cultural history. Nevertheless, his interest in America and his influence on American thought a...
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George Berkeley is best known for his denial of matter and for a series of arguments which, according to David Hume, "admit of no answer and produce no conviction." James Boswell offered a similar ass...
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According to John Stuart Mill, George Berkeley made "three first-rate philosophical discoveries, each sufficient to have constituted a revolution in psychology, and which by their combination have det...
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Philosopher George Berkeley was born at Dysert Castle, near Thomastown, Ireland, on March 12, 1685. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, with a Bachelor of Arts in 1704 and was elected a fellow ...
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Born in the same year as the great composers Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Frideric Handel, and Domenico Scarlatti, Berkeley was one of the seminal figures in Western philosophy, his doctrines exerting...
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George Berkeley writes extensively on man's perception of the outside world in an attempt to explain the nature of existence and God's role in the workings of the Universe.
Berkeley was born at Dyser...
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