Reliance on God:
Idealism relies on the existence of God.
The world is, apparently, regular and intransient because these perceptions change state in a predictable manner
A world such as this requires a permanent perceiver, God, in whose mind everything subsists.
However if we cannot know anything except our own experience how can we know God? God is not one of our experiences and therefore we cannot know him empirically.
If we can know God exists without having direct experience of him this could suggest the possibility that we are living in a world with independently existing physical objects that cause our sense experiences.
By introducing God into the equation Berkeley undermines his own argument that we can only have knowledge of our own experiences.

	Creado por lucy-hook hace más de 13 años

A-Level (Knowledge of the external world) Philosophy Apunte sobre Idealism, creado por lucy-hook el 15/05/2013.