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Principles of Human Knowledge

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What’s it about?

What if the world exists only in your mind? Berkeley dismantles matter itself, arguing that reality is nothing but ideas perceived by minds—with God as the ultimate perceiver holding it all together.

You’ll learn

  • To be is to be perceived
  • Matter is a meaningless abstraction
  • All qualities are mind-dependent
  • God is the ultimate perceiver