George Berkeley
1685 CE–1753 CE · Philosopher · Dysart Castle, near Thomastown, County Kilkenny
George Berkeley was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop, a central figure of early modern empiricism. He is known for immaterialism (or "subjective idealism") — the view that material things have no existence independent of being perceived, summarized in his phrase "esse est percipi" (to be is to be perceived), with continuity of existence secured by God's perception. His principal works include A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713). He spent time in Rhode Island promoting a planned college for Bermuda, later became Bishop of Cloyne, and wrote on mathematics, economics, and vision.
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