Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hypokeimenon, Empirical Evidence, Hyle
20 Mar 2016
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Berkeley (october 16, 2012, biographical and historical matters. Ordained as an anglican priest in 1710. One of the three great 18th century empiricists. A treatise on the principles of knowledge (1710) Three dialogues between hylas and philonous (1713) Hylas from the greek word for matter hyle. Philonous from the greek words for lover of the mind: review of locke"s empiricism: External objects cause ideas in our minds: matter and mind exist. So locke"s picture admits the reality of mater and mind/ideas (it is a form of dualism) Qualities: the properties of the external objects: primary and secondary qualities. Primary qualities: extension, solidity, shape mobility and number. For the object to be experienced at all it must take up space and therefore must have a shape. Primary qualities are in our ideas and also in the external object. Because they give the physical characterization of the object. They are sense dependent so they necessarily result from how we perceive them.
