Berkeley and Lokayata
Berkeley famously argues that "what is said of the absolute existence of unthinking things without any relation to their being perceived ... [is] perfectly unintelligible. Their esse is percipi, nor is it possible they should have any existence, out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them" (Principles, sect. 3). He aims to demonstrate this principle, he says, "In opposition to sceptics and atheists" (Three Dialogues, subtitle). As Berkeley saw it, human knowledge and traditional religion were under attack from 'freethinkers' and the root of this attack was the doctrine that real physical things must be something beyond or...
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Topic(s):
Epistemology
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George Berkeley
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Historical Thinkers
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Idealism/Phenomenalism
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Lokayata School
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Materialism
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Metaphysics
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Ontology
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Mind
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Sense Perception
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