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This 7 page paper explores the works of David Hume and George Berkeley, and argues that Hume adheres quite strictly to the philosophy of empiricism while Berkeley does not. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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explores the works of David Hume and George Berkeley, and argues that Hume adheres quite strictly to the philosophy of empiricism while Berkeley does not. Discussion Well begin with Berkeley,
and his Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Berkeley begins his treatise with the statement: "Philosophy being nothing else but the study of wisdom and truth, it may with
reason be expected that those who have spent most time and pains it in should enjoy a greater calm and serenity of mind, a greater clearness and evidence of knowledge,
and be less disturbed with doubts and difficulties than other men" (Berkeley, 1999). But this isnt true: its the "illiterate bulk of mankind that walk the high-road of plain common
sense; and are governed by the dictates of nature, for the most part easy and undisturbed" (Berkeley, 1999). Berkeley wants to understand why it is the philosophers and others who
find themselves assailed with doubts while ordinary people have no such troubles; he thinks that perhaps the difficulty is not in our inadequate faculties, but in "the wrong use we
make of them" (Berkeley, 1999). He says that its very difficult to believe that "right deductions from true principles should ever end in consequences which cannot be maintained or
made consistent"; meaning that its hard to believe we can draw the wrong conclusions if we have true premises to begin with (Berkeley, 1999). He finally says that he wants
to discover "what those Principles are which have introduced all that doubtfulness and uncertainty, those absurdities and contradictions, into the several sects of philosophy" (Berkeley, 1999). After a good deal
of obscure reasoning, he arrives at the conclusion that abstract ideas are at fault, and carrying that even further, declares that the real world does not exist, but is a
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