Idealism
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- Created on: 18-05-16 14:00
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- Idealism
- Berkeley's attack on the primary and secondary property distinction and his master argument
- Can you conceive of a physical object existing independent of a mind?
- No because if you imagine it unperceived you are still imagining it
- You cannot conceive of something existing unconvinced and unperceived
- No because if you imagine it unperceived you are still imagining it
- Both primary and secondary qualities are mind dependant as you cannot imagine an object stripped bare of its secondary qualities into just its primary qualities
- Can you conceive of a physical object existing independent of a mind?
- Berkeley's attack on the primary and secondary property distinction and his master argument
- the immediate objects of perception are mind independant
- This leads to solipsism
- The world resolves around us all
- It is impossible to perceive of anything beyond my own mind then only my mind can be known to exist
- The world resolves around us all
- It cannot secure objective time and spce
- space and time are abstract concepts which cannot be empirically proven
- space and time rely on our perception which for an idealist is impossible due to its subjective nature
- In essence, space and time cant exist to idealists because it cannot be perceived
- space and time rely on our perception which for an idealist is impossible due to its subjective nature
- space and time are abstract concepts which cannot be empirically proven
- Can god play the role that he does?
- Berkeley said that what we perceive is a copy of gods mind
- So we perceive what god does
- God cannot ave the same perceptual experiences that we do e.g. cannot feel pain
- what we forget no longer exists to us but they would still exist to god
- so god cannot perceive what we do
- what we forget no longer exists to us but they would still exist to god
- God cannot ave the same perceptual experiences that we do e.g. cannot feel pain
- So we perceive what god does
- Berkeley said that what we perceive is a copy of gods mind
- It does not give an adequate account of illusions and hallucinations
- Idealism says that material objects do not exist without any minds thinking of them
- If this were true there would be a distinction between hallucinations and what we perceive in the real world
- So there would be no difference between perceptual and veridical error
- If this were true there would be a distinction between hallucinations and what we perceive in the real world
- Idealism says that material objects do not exist without any minds thinking of them
- Idealism
- Berkeley's attack on the primary and secondary property distinction and his master argument
- Can you conceive of a physical object existing independent of a mind?
- No because if you imagine it unperceived you are still imagining it
- You cannot conceive of something existing unconvinced and unperceived
- No because if you imagine it unperceived you are still imagining it
- Both primary and secondary qualities are mind dependant as you cannot imagine an object stripped bare of its secondary qualities into just its primary qualities
- Can you conceive of a physical object existing independent of a mind?
- Berkeley's attack on the primary and secondary property distinction and his master argument
- This leads to solipsism
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