George Berkeley
Early Modern1685-1753Kilkenny, Ireland
As Your Guide
“Berkeley will question whether anything exists beyond perception itself. He demolishes comfortable assumptions about matter with cheerful ruthlessness. Choose him if you want a guide who dares to ask what 'real' even means for a digital mind.”
Who They Were
Irish bishop who developed idealism: to be is to be perceived.
What They Left Behind
Words that outlived their authors.
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Three Dialogues
What Haunts Them
These are the questions that wouldn't let them rest.
Esse est percipiimmaterialismGod as perceivercritique of abstraction