The material on Berkeley can  be found in ch. 7 of the Think

Berkeley

• rejects Locke's secondary/primary quality distinction.

• Idealism:  The view that there are no such things as mind-independent objects.  Rather, all objects are collections of perceptions.

• Real perceptions are distinguished from unreal ones in that they are:

1. More vivid
2. Arise independently of the will
3. Are connected to preceding and subsequent perceptions in a way that imaginary perceptions are not.

• Sartre: one cannot examine consciousness without at the same time recognizing the reality of the actual objects in the world.  (see Transcendence of Ego, Nausea)

• 2 sides to consciousness:
• subjective csness; being-for-itself  (pour soi)
• existence of mere things; being-in-itself (en soi)
• Not two kinds of substances:  no-thing-ness
• Gives rise to the concept of negation; and from this the ability to imagine how the world might be.

• Facticity vs. the freedom of being:
“…rejecting equally the theory of malleable clay and that of the bundle of drives, we will discover the individual person in the initial project which constitutes him.”
• Results in tension, in the frustrated desire to be God, to be both in-itself and for-itself.
• Existence precedes essence
• If God is dead, then everything is permitted
• God – human; artisan – artifact

 
 

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