Michael Ayers on Locke and Berkeley: Section 5

Locke and Berkeley

This program examines the philosophies of British empiricists John Locke and George Berkeley. Philosopher Michael Ayers of Oxford interprets Locke's skeptical theory that all knowledge is sensory and speculative, and that the true nature of the world can never be known as an attack on Descartes' theory of innate ideas. Conversely, Berkeley insists that we cannot have sensory knowledge of material substances because the exist only in the mind. Even the laws of nature, Berkeley says are merely the regularities of our own perceptions or ideas.

Section 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5jwktbnrZY

Section 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKmp0jXE0c0

Section 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0sJlhroEa0

Section 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ctxZtbH_mw

Section 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KutXFg5rlU

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Bryan
• Magee
• Michael
• Ayers
• John
• Locke
• Berkeley
• Empiricism

[PeteUtonic]

I think they should have discussed how Berkeley dismissed Locke's primary/secondary qualities distinction as it's essential so to understand the core of his idealism

[matvarn]

if this is fake my essay's totally wrong!!!!

[FeelingFreshSon]

Do things exist when we aren't looking at them? I act like they do...if by "exist" you mean...well exist means to, uh...

[Catz007]

@LooksAeterna

Nice to hear such vigour and resolve: "the fact that Berkeley's basic thrust is the only solution and future of philosophy for the mind body problem"

[Catz007]

@cbaydalavideos

He doesn't need to prove that things do not exist independently,

Do you think that the God-believer should prove God's existence or the Atheist should prove God's Non-existence?

If you assume that the Burden of Proof is on the God-believer to prove God's existence, then it is up to Materialists to prove the existence of independent "stuff" called "matter" as opposed to the simple phenomena which we experience.

Idealism makes for a more beautiful and meaningful and honest world.

[LaoDecmius]

hmm he called him Mr and not professor

[LooksAeterna]

(contd.) In that context: 4:33 - 5:20 !!!

So then why TF isn't more being said ??? Why the continued underrating of Berkeley ? Some interest group doesn't want to let that truth get out to the public ear and instead seems to want to keep it to itself. No you don't want the goyim to discover that life may be about something greater than slavery, junk food, bad fucking and watching TV.

You may wonder what they are doing in those masonic rituals, and Manly P. Hall can tell you.

[LooksAeterna]

As usual, Berkeley is being under- and misrepresented by someone with unsympathetic prejudices.

That is very sad, given the fact that Berkeley's basic thrust is the only solution and future of philosophy for the mind body problem, totally independent of Berkeley's possibly biased motivations for generating his view.