#georgeberkeley

2025-06-01

= "nouvel essor du de soi"

-> alimente les défis cap ou pas cap en se filmant + chaîne de nomination (cf besoin d'appartenance à un groupe)

= "médiation de la mise en spectacle de soi" -> ce qui compte c'est d'être 'vu' (algorithme)

cf télé-réalité

"Esse est percipi" = "Etre, c'est être perçu"
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2024-09-17

The crux of the rationalist/empiricist debate lies in how we explain our possession of ideas that seemingly could not come from experience, such as the ideas of infinity or perfection... #historyofphilosophy #intellectualtraditions #johnlocke #empiricism #georgeberkeley #Idealism #rationalism #metaphysics #epistemology #philosophy #dualism #experience philosophyindefinitely.wordpre

2024-05-13

Alfred North Whitehead was most influential in the second half of the 20th century with his process philosophy. Whitehead started as a mathematician, later became a philosopher of science, and then became a professor of philosophy until full retirement... read about his process philosophy here: #alfrednorthwhitehead #processphilosophy #phenomenology #philosophyofscience #BertrandRussell #science #metaphysics #mathematics #logic #hegel #georgeberkeley philosophyindefinitely.wordpre

2024-03-25

Berkeley was concerned about the world of ideas, with materialism being on the rise in his day. He considered Locke’s epistemology, where mind has ideas as it’s object of thinking involving both primary and secondary qualities which are representative of material objects... Continue reading at philosophy indefinitely
#philosophy #georgeberkeley #epistemology #ideas #Idealism #historyofphilosophy
philosophyindefinitely.wordpre

2024-03-17

“Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.”

— George Berkeley
#quote #quoteoftheday #quotesonmastodon #fedvierse #georgeberkeley #philosophy #truth

2024-03-12

George Berkeley, philosopher of the immaterial and bishop of Cloyne was born #otd 1685 in Dysart Castle #Kilkenny

A post on Berkeley's immaterialism and how it has been misunderstood

irishphilosophy.com/2016/03/12

Including by a 19th century satire of immaterialism included among other satires of the Irish...
irishphilosophy.com/2013/04/11

#IrishPhilosophyOTD #GeorgeBerkeley #immaterialism

World History Encyclopediawhencyclopedia@mstdn.social
2024-01-31

George Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Anglo-Irish bishop and an empiricist and idealist philosopher. #History #Philosophy #GeorgeBerkeley #Philosopher #HistoryFacts worldhistory.org/George_Berkel

2023-04-04

#OliverGoldsmith died #OTD 1774. Novelist, poet, playwright. He lived by his pen, also writing philosophical essays, including on aesthetics (as debated by Berkeley, Hutcheson, Burke) irishphilosophy.com/2014/04/04

Wrote first bio of #GeorgeBerkeley including this wild story from college days irishphilosophy.com/2014/06/23

Wrote an early elegy for a selection of friends, including #EdmundBurke irishphilosophy.com/2015/04/04

The original "Citizen of the World" link.springer.com/chapter/10.1

#IrishPhilosophyOTD

2023-03-29

What! can anything be more fantastical, more repugnant to Common Sense, or a more manifest piece of Scepticism, than to believe there is no such thing as MATTER? -- George Berkeley.

(Or, why, even if a philosopher wrote it, doesn't mean he meant it.)

#GeorgeBerkeley #TheDangerOfQuotes

2023-03-26

Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1829-1913), Kantian scholar and critic of Berkeley's theory of vision. Born #otd in 1829.

#DIB bio: dib.ie/biography/abbott-thomas

Berkeley's theory of vision and Abbott's critique: irishphilosophy.com/2014/12/18

#KingsmillAbbott #GeorgeBerkeley #IrishPhilosophyOTD

2023-03-21
2023-03-15

@klp I wonder if #ChatGPT ever "read" the short story "Tlon, Uqbar,
Orbis Tertius" by #Borges. Works as a prequel, I think.
sites.evergreen.edu/politicals (pdf)

#GeorgeBerkeley

Jeffrey M. Binderjmbinder
2022-12-20

Twitter's algorithm did an injustice by not showing anyone this dank I made.

Condillac vs. Berkeley. Condillac, crying behind a mask, says, "If you do not understand me, it is because I do not know how to write; and if you happen sometimes not to understand me, that is because I sometimes write badly." Berkeley, well-adjusted, says, "Tis the fault of language that you cannot always apprehend the clear & distinct meaning of my Words."

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