Philosophy by Sharon Kaye

Author:Sharon Kaye [Kaye, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2014-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

Berkeley reasons syllogistically that, if wavelength 570–590 nm is yellow, and yellow is subjective, then wavelength 570–590 nm must be subjective as well.

Berkeley was rather eccentric for a bishop, because he actually came to believe that the world does not exist. He figured it would be much more efficient for God to transmit the idea of the world to our minds without bothering to create matter. (Descartes, in contrast, as we saw in Chapter 5, would regard this as an intolerable deception, of which a benevolent deity would be incapable.)

Philosophers continue to regard Berkeley as an important part of the history of philosophy, not necessarily because they agree with his idealist conclusion, but because he put his finger on a real problem with pure empiricism. Perhaps the only solution is to find a way to combine it with rationalism, as we shall see Kant attempting, in Chapter 9.

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