PHIL 250 Lecture 15: Berkeley against Locke (cont.); Berkeley’s Idealism; Introducing Hume
10 Mar 2017
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This argument is effective against the letter of locke"s position, but it surely can"t. Locke needs a distinction (of the kind descartes made in his causal argument for god"s. ); berkeley"s idealism; introducing hume: we began by briefly considering berkeley"s attack on locke"s claim that our ideas can resemble mind-independent objects. Locke claims that what it is to have an idea of an object is to have an idea that resembles it in appropriate respects. Berkeley sets out to show that we can give no sense to the claim that ideas resemble objects. Locke admits that our ideas of secondary qualities do not resemble properties as they are in the object. He does claim, however, that our ideas of primary qualities resemble the objects. It is clear, for example, that a picture can represent something without literally sharing its properties. Indeed, this is so obvious that it is amazing.
