What Is George Berkeley Contradictory?

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George Berkeley argues his view, which he states that the things like houses, mountain, river etc. are exist dependently of the act of perceiving. He also claims that those things are external to human mind. This views sounds like contradictory because it does not make sense for something that exists dependently as well as not part of human mind. However, it is untrue. In his work, George Berkeley justifies his view, which is phenomenalism, does not contradictory because he has highlights the existence of God. He depicts that God as the only resource of sensation and the sense data of any ideas is caused by God’s mind. Since George Berkeley has point out the existence of the God, this view does not seem contradictory and it supports his view.
George Berkeley truly believes that the existence of everything is dependent on our mind. He states, “Anyone who survey the objects of human knowledge will easily see that all ideas that are either actually imprinter or perceived by attending to one's own emotions and mental actives or formed out of ideas of the first two types, with the help of memory and imagination, by compounding or diving or simply reproducing ideas of those other two kinds” (Principle 1). As George Berkeley highlights, …show more content…

He states, ”They are also less dependent on the sprit or thinking substance that perceives them, for they are caused by the will of another and more powerful spirit, namely God; but still they are ideas, and certainly no idea-whether faint or strong-can exist otherwise than in a mind perceiving it” (Principle 33). This means that George Berkeley believes that God produce the sensation, and then human mind is perceive the object through sensation that given by the God. This fixes the problem that George Berkeley made in his second claim, Since the God produces those ideas and sensation, then all things are external to human

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