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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Auto-didactic Section 14 Group 1 (Berkley-Locke)

       After reading the assigned reading for last night, I discovered how odd the philosopher Berkeley was. He actually believe that tangible items and objects ceased to exist if no one was around; however, his fellow philosopher Locke thought a tad differently. Locke truly believed that world as we know it exists, but he also believed that common characteristics that are frequently observed are only figments of our imagination, or "ideas". A few of Berkeley's examples can be explained through scientific knowledge. For instance, it is quite obvious that a fridge goes off when the door is closed. Why? The refrigerator was constructively built that way. The light does not go off because the fridge and the light do not exist. That's insane. I personally believe that everything exits all of the time. It's just impossible to observe everything all of the time, so one should not consume their thoughts with notions that are beyond the human scope. I also believe that Locke and Berkeley fit together perfectly in this section because they both loved to concoct absurd reasoning and examples for things that the average individual would probably never think about. All in all, it was a very interesting section to read. I also found it very interesting that Berkeley was named for this  particularly "unique" philosopher.
Questions:
1. How did the philosophies of Locke and Berkeley differ?
2. Has there ever been a time when you questioned the existence of something frequent in your everyday life. If so, what?

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