oakvibe.pages.dev

George berkeley cause of death

    •

Bishop George Berkeley


Bishop George Berkeley (1685 - 1753) was an Irish philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, best known for his theory of Immaterialism, a type of Idealism (he is sometimes considered the father of modern Idealism). Along with John Locke and David Hume, he is also a major figure in the British Empiricism movement, although his Empiricism is of a much more radical kind, arising from his mantra "to be is to be perceived".

He was a brilliant critic of his predecessors, particularly Descartes, Malebranche, Locke and Hobbes, and a talented metaphysician capable of defending the apparently counter-intuitive theory of Immaterialism. He also had some minor influence on the development of mathematics (and calculus in particular).

George Berkeley (pronounced BARK-lee) was born on 12 March 1685 at his family home, Dysart Castle, in County Kilkenny, southern Ireland. He was the eldest son of William Berkeley, a member of the junior branch of the noble English family of Berkeley. He was educated at local Kilkenny College a

    •

George Berkeley

George Berkeley's father was William Berkeley and his mother is believed to have been Elisabeth Southerne, although this has not been verified with complete certainty. William Berkeley was a gentleman farmer whose family originally came from Staffordshire in England while Elisabeth Southerne was the daughter of a Dublin brewer. George grew up in Dysert Castle, near Thomastown, which his father owned. He entered the Duke of Ormonde's School in Kilkenny in July 1696 and studied there until January 1700 and then, although still not fifteen years of age, he entered Trinity College, Dublin. He matriculated in March 1700, just after he reached the age of fifteen as a pensioner, meaning that he did not have a scholarship and paid for his own keep in College. In 1701 he was elected to an Erasmus Smith exhibition, and was awarded a scholarship in the following year. He graduated with a B.A. in the spring of 1704.

Stewart writes [3]:-
After graduating he prepared an elementary textbook in which he explored the basis of arithmetical notation and the principal arithmetic
    •

George Berkeley

Anglo-Irish philosopher and bishop (1685–1753)

For other people named George Berkeley, see George Berkeley (disambiguation).

The Right Reverend


George Berkeley

Portrait of Berkeley by John Smybert, 1727

ChurchChurch of Ireland
DioceseCloyne
In office1734–1753
PredecessorEdward Synge
SuccessorJames Stopford
Ordination1709 (deacon)
1710 (priest)
Consecration18 January 1734
Born(1685-03-12)12 March 1685

Dysart Castle, near Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Died14 January 1753(1753-01-14) (aged 67)
Oxford, England
DenominationAnglican
SpouseAnne Forster
Children6
Education
Philosophy career
EducationTrinity College, Dublin
(B.A., 1704; M.A. 1707)
Era18th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolSubjective idealism (phenomenalism)
Empiricism
Foundationalism[1]
Conceptualism[2]
Indirect realism[3]
InstitutionsTrinity College, Dublin[4]

Main interests

Christianity, metaphysics, epistemology, languag

Copyright ©oakvibe.pages.dev 2025