George Berkeley & Immaterialism

George Berkeley & Immaterialism
George Berkeley (1685-1753) is best known for his contention that the physical world is nothing but a compilation of ideas. This is represented by his famous aphorism esse est percipi (“to be is to be perceived”). His work predominantly includes idealism and immaterialism, but he also worked on visual perception, ethics, economics, and many other areas of academia.

Here are five facts you might not have known about Berkeley:
1.George Berkeley and his wife Anne donated their farm and almost a thousand books to Yale University upon leaving America in 1731 after the Bermuda Project didn’t go ahead.

2.Of the twelve years Berkeley had a fellowship at Trinity College, he only spent 3 years actually in Dublin.

3.Berkeley had a life-long friendship with Thomas Prior, an Irish author and founder of the Royal Dublin Society.

4.Berkeley’s three most important and famous works were all written and well established before he was 30 years old.

5.Whitehall, the house in Rhode Island which Berkeley built and inhabited with his family during his time in America, is still preserved and is now a museum on the philosopher.

References:
http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/4r.htm
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/

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