This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Berkley’s Idealism” area of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It contains the following information:
The immediate objects of perception (ie ordinary objects such as tables, chairs, etc) are mind-dependent objects.
Arguments for idealism including Berkeley’s attack on the primary/secondary quality distinction and his ‘Master’ argument.
Issues including:
arguments from illusion and hallucination
idealism leads to solipsism
problems with the role played by God in Berkeley’s Idealism (including how can Berkeley claim that our ideas exist within God’s mind given that he believes that God cannot feel pain or have sensations?)
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