2. His Life and Works
Born at Thomastown, County
Kilkenny, Ireland.
He was educated at Kilkenny College
Trinity College, Dublin, earning a
bachelor's degree in 1704 and completing
a master's degree in 1707
The eldest son of William Berkeley, a
cadet of the noble family of Berkeley
3. His Life and Works
An Irish Anglican Bishop of Cloyne
Philosopher, metaphysician, apologist,
mathematician ,scientist
A Critic particularly to Descartes and
Locke
Some would say that he is a Solipsist
belief in self
as only reality
4. His Life and Works
Has was married twice, his first wife
Rebecca Monck, then married Anne
Forster, daughter of John Forster, Chief
Justice of the Irish Common Pleas in
1728
Published his major works; Treatise
Concerning the Principles of Human
Knowledge., The Three Dialogues
Between Hylas and Philonous. At his
twenties.
12. Berkeley claimed that worldly things
are indeed as we perceive them, but
they are not things
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15. Berkeley believed in a “spirit” he thought all
our ideas have a cause beyond our
consciousness, but that this cause is not of a
material nature. It is SPIRITUAL