immaterialism

But Berkeley already had his more general immaterialism in mind.

This is justified by his belief that abstractionism does more than obscure the truth of immaterialism.

It entails and is generally identified or associated with immaterialism, the doctrine that material things do not exist.

Berkeley's immaterialism: a commentary on his "A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge".

Berkeley called this philosophy immaterialism.

George Berkeley (1685-1753) and his "immaterialism" (later referred to as subjective idealism by others)

His main philosophical achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others).

Berkeley is also known for his critique of abstraction, an important premise in his argument for immaterialism.

But he was equally unhappy with the typical alternative, with what he saw as the uneasy combination of materialism and immaterialism.

You tell me indeed of a repugnancy between the Mosaic history and Immaterialism: but you know not where it lies.

His success in this depends directly on the success of his immaterialism, for it is obvious how it continually points the way towards God.

Baltimore: Dialectical Immaterialism Press.

Instead, he wholeheartedly takes them over: they show up materialism as an inadequate position and leave the way open for his spiritual immaterialism, with God at its centre.

Bayle pushed even further down this same path, thereby laying much of the ground work for the immaterialism of George Berkeley.

Berkeley's assessment of immaterialism was criticized by Samuel Johnson, as recorded by James Boswell.

Berkeley, partly in reaction to Locke, also attempted to reintroduce an "immaterialism" into early modern philosophy (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others).

Berkeley's mature philosophy was given lucid exposition by Luce in his 1945 work "Berkeley's Immaterialism".

McKim, R. Luce's account of the development of Berkeley's immaterialism.

'Reflections on Materialism, Immaterialism, the Sleep of the Soul .

According to Berkeley, the usual combination of materialism and immaterialism leads to scepticism because of its 'supposing a difference between things and ideas '.

But Berkeley's claims that his Immaterialism avoided the scepticism endemic in his predecessors, and restored philosophy to the beliefs of sound common sense, were not accepted.

Since Kant, true immaterialism has remained a rarity, but is survived by partly overlapping movements such as phenomenalism, subjectivism, and perspectivism.

The Dialectic of Immaterialism: An Account of the Making of Berkeley's Principles.

Given Berkeley's immaterialism, however, the idea that things have real essences (be they scholastic forms or corpuscular constitutions), which are the cause of their properties, simply has no place.

The sycamore tree of the title is a reference to a version of the famous limerick by Ronald Knox which encapsulates George Berkeley's immaterialism.