PHIL102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: George Berkeley, Monism, Subjective Idealism
3 Nov 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
> all our ideas come to us through sense perception. You (and your perception) < x > mind independent reality. Your ideas are not dependent or influence the actual reality. (locke) He believes that all that is reality is in your mind, hence he is an idealist. He is a monist in a sense that he understands that the reality is ideal, meaning that it all depends on the idea in your mind: secondary qualities. > locke: certain arrangement of (imperceptible) primary quality that cause an idea in your mind. > berkeley: the secondary quality are dependant on perceptive" or perception" Locke would say that the above statement is not real", because reality = mind independence: primary qualities. Berkeley: says that they are mind-dependent, as they depend on perceptive. Size is just as relative to perception as temperature is. > which means that primary qualities are just as real as secondary qualities.
