Everyone knows what made Berkeley notorious. He said that there were no material objects. He said the external world was in some sense immaterial, that nothing existed save ideas — ideas and their authors. His contemporaries thought him very ingenious and a little mad.


Berkeley's External World (1947)

Isaiah Berlin Quotes

Everyone knows what made Berkeley notorious. He said that there were no material objects. He said the external world was in some sense immaterial,...

Everyone knows what made Berkeley notorious. He said that there were no material objects. He said the external world was in some sense immaterial,...

Everyone knows what made Berkeley notorious. He said that there were no material objects. He said the external world was in some sense immaterial,...

Everyone knows what made Berkeley notorious. He said that there were no material objects. He said the external world was in some sense immaterial,...