George Berkeley

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Anglican bishop Irish philosopher human philosopher

George Berkeley was an 18th-century Irish philosopher best known for his idealist doctrine that reality consists only of minds and their ideas, encapsulated in the phrase "to be is to be perceived."

Aliases (1)

Bishop George Berkeley ×2

Statements (60)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Anglican bishop → Irish philosopher → human → philosopher →
academicDegree	Doctor of Divinity →
birthDate	1685-03-12 →
birthPlace	County Kilkenny → Kingdom of Ireland →
deathDate	1753-01-14 →
deathPlace	Kingdom of Great Britain → Oxford →
denomination	Church of Ireland →
describedBy	to be is to be perceived →
educatedAt	Trinity College Dublin →
education	Kilkenny College →
era	18th-century philosophy →
familyName	Berkeley →
fieldOfWork	epistemology → metaphysics → philosophy of perception → philosophy of religion →
fullName	George Berkeley →
givenName	George →
influenced	American pragmatism → Arthur Schopenhauer → Charles Sanders Peirce → David Hume → Immanuel Kant → analytic philosophy →
influencedBy	Isaac Newton → John Locke → Nicolas Malebranche →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
motto	esse est percipi →
movement	empiricism → idealism → immaterialism →
nationality	Irish →
notableIdea	esse est percipi → immaterialism → subjective idealism →
notableWork	A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge → Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher → An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision → Siris → Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous →
occupation	Anglican bishop → essayist → philosopher → theologian →
philosophicalSchool	British empiricism → early modern philosophy →
positionHeld	Bishop of Cloyne →
proposedProject	Bermuda College →
religion	Anglicanism →
residence	Cloyne → Dublin → London → Rhode Island →
spouse	Anne Forster →

Referenced by (17)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
A Treatise of Human Nature → David Home → David Hume → Ernst Mach → The Analysis of Sensations → Thomas Reid →	influencedBy
Berkeley → Berkeley College → Berkeley College ("Bishop George Berkeley") →	namedAfter
British Enlightenment → Empiricism →	associatedWith
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding → Nicolas Malebranche →	influenced
Cartesianism →	criticizedBy
George Berkeley →	fullName
The Scriblerus Club ("Bishop George Berkeley") →	hasMember
On the History of Modern Philosophy →	philosopherDiscussed