I think that for Berkeley the ding an sich is God. There is no veil of perception to be overcome, just God, his ideas of objects and us and our minds,...
The Wahhabi sect of Sunni Muslims are more fanatic than the Iranians Mullah's. Bin Laden was a Wahhabi as is al-quiada. Afghanistan has never been tru...
Great post, keep them coming. This is right in line with my question. He does actually provide a lot of support for his theory however a lot of that s...
Great post, thanks. Some of my ideas on what you said. Berkeley says that we cannot form abstract ideas of colour without shape, or of bodies without ...
Although reading all of the different points of view is fascinating, my thread asks only which theory is instrumentally better, Locke's material thesi...
Plato is the first dualist as I see it but not necessarily an idealist. Berkeley is talking to the followers of Descartes who agreed on material and s...
Berkeley says the world is real and therefore physical, the physical things in his world are not made of matter. Matter can exist independently and id...
He does dent material bodies but not physical ones. Objects owe their existence to the power of Gods idea giving them physical form. This physical for...
Berkeley is a proper empiricist, all the laws of nature are preserved, real and empirically knowable. With everything being an idea of God causation i...
I have also gleaned from Dancy that Berkeley is only attacking the theory of materialism that also accepts spiritual substance - in which case he is a...
Clarification. Ok been reading some Dancy on Berkeley. 1. Berkeley wants to deny material substance but want to allow the existence of physical things...
An idea can only resemble another idea. I already said that the whole 'notion' business is where he starts to come undone. Notions are kind of the see...
Thanks for the post, I also immediately thought of Spinoza although in the subject matter he never gets a mention. I remember something about him thou...
Berkeley says that we don't have ideas of other spirits or of God, because an idea can only resemble an idea. We do have 'notions' of other minds and ...
I didn't say he does it perfectly and IMO he runs into a lot of difficulties in the reestablishment of spiritual substance in place of matter. Focus o...
Berkeley addresses and answers this objection in the Dialogues. Optics was actually his best subject, his book on it did much better than immaterialis...
Perhaps I am trying to say that a person acting 'out of character' is a person not acting according to his personal set of deterministic influences. B...
I love Russell but that isn't what I am trying to do, any success is purely accidental. I do not seek to redefine either term just to contextualize (?...
Ok so something like 'It could be the case that non-absolute determinism exist'? Or 'It could be the case that determinism exists with only finite inf...
I am looking for a way to make freewill truly compatible with determinism. My approach is to try and firstly show that determinism exists but is not a...
Perhaps it is not a choice. If it is born from crisis then it could well be a violent internal reaction (yes I am aware that Hume has an answer for th...
I think that we oversimplify the nature of determination and causal influence. We know that there is a factor called 'the individual' that allows two ...
You have hit the nail on the head. If we say the awakening happens through causal influence then the theory sinks like a lead balloon. We need to exam...
I am not trying to base the hypotheses on intuition at all, or at least I don't think that I am. Acting in character is when we do things as we 'sleep...
I am exploring the idea of character in relation to freewill in another thread here asking if we have the capacity for freewill. I believe that when w...
Music is a general / abstract name given to different combinations of notes. Music is the general title that all pieces of music belong to as separate...
Substance addiction acts in many ways like a Frankfurt case with the exception of the seemingly voluntary side. In which case we can't judge the freew...
I am not sure that I agree with you on this point. Berkeley says that all that exists are spirits, ideas and an infinite spirit. Are you sure that our...
The more I think about it I still don't understand how it all works. How do we actually receive sense data if sense data is basically Gods ideas? If i...
You have made Berkeley's point. Only ideas can resemble ideas. You cannot compare the idea of a tree with a tree or with anything else except another ...
Please read all of his posts before commenting. There is only so much I can take from someone who keeps contradicting his own theory. I am expressing ...
You have no way of supporting such a generalization. People fall on hard times through no fault of their own, or by being unlucky. We are all just acc...
Kant said that happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination. Nietzsche said that man does not strive for happiness, only the Englishman does...
In search of our own pleasure we ignore the plight of the weak and of those yet to be born. IMO we need to have duty as the main position for morality...
Sir may currently choose between jackets made from three types of material, Virtue, Duty, and Consequence. Once you choose the material there are furt...
That is your Kantian position. And here we have your Utilitarian / hedonist position. The trick is finding a balance between the two. If you were only...
If we saw people as minds the world would be very different. Ignore the body, the sex, the social position and just focus on the mind. That is where o...
Some people refuse to admit when they are in over their depth, they will twist and challenge everything rather than accept that they may be wrong abou...
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