PHIL 2025 Lecture Notes - Hylas, Subjective Idealism, Fideism
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Feb 24: berkeley, who is he, the problem of religion, berkeley"s stance, work, a treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge. George berkeley: 1684 (ireland)-1753, ordained to the anglican church (1707, 1734 bishop of cloyne, an essay towards a new theory of vision (1709, de moto (1720) If, as berkeley argued, all that exists are minds and their ideas (berkeley"s immaterialism), the whole problem giving rise to either deism or fideism does not arise. Works: a treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge (1730, tree dialogues between hylas and philonous (1713) A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge (1730) Introduction: the negative project 1-5 (paragraphs, abstract ideas and critique 6-10, 13, related issues 11-12, 14-20. Ideas of kinds of things (made up of collections of type 2 ideas: for instance, the idea of a dog of not specific size, shape, or colour, of an animal, of a living thing.
