![]() ![]() Some of his statements are ambiguous and can be wrenched from context and made to look like he supported the non-reality of the outside physical world, but, really, he denied the existence of matter in the philosophical sense of a substrate made up of abstracted accidents and qualities. I might, if I were to expand philosophy to include quasi-mystical writers of the same era, include Swedenborg, Hutchinson, Boehme and Sterry.īerkeley has often been misrepresented as being a philosopher that denied the existence of matter in the sense of real external objects. Out of 17th-early 18th century philosophers, Berkeley intrigues me as much as Leibniz does. Out of Spinoza, Locke, Descartes, Hume and Berkeley, I certainly found Berkeley the most interesting but, then, I am into Idealism, so it is to some degree understandable and indicates my bias really. ![]()
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