Why George Berkeley Dismissed John Locke

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Taking into consideration George Berkeley's working position as a bishop along with also being a philosopher one can infer that he is a man that understands language. Moreover, one of the main reason’s why Berkeley dismissed John Locke's understanding of abstract ideas also known as general principles is the misuse and even abuse of language in Locke’s part. Notwithstanding, Locke’s understanding is that we may use names for abstract ideas. Of course when stating abstract ideas Locke instrumented towards an idea in general. For example, when Locke says “cereal” he does not differentiate between size, flavor, brand,etc. Different from Locke’s understanding as mentioned prior Berkeley believed that Locke’s “abstract ideas” produced errors in …show more content…

As an undergraduate Berkeley believed that Locke was on the right path to empiricism since Locke stated that our experiences are the source of all of our ideas. Nevertheless, Berkeley believed that Locke did not fully carry out empiricism far enough. With this in mind the theory of perception that states that we are aware of objects only through the meditation of the ideas that represent them, a theory that Locke fully believes in. To put it differently Berkeley believes that Locke’s approach of perception cannot provide a reliable account of connection between ideas and their perspective objects of representation. Moreover according to Berkeley the lack of this connection between ideas and objects are exposed to skepticism and maybe even atheism. For the purpose of resolving this conflict Berkeley argued that we must eliminate conceived third elements of the philosophical structure this being that we must acknowledge that material objects do not exist. Through Berkeley’s perspective of “immaterialism” the ideas we directly perceive are the only real ideas, such as in his “abstract ideas” understanding where Berkely wanted to protect language from errors in “immaterialism” he wishes to protect common sense as

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