Berkeley

Clasping Bellflower

"To be is to be Perceived." George Berkeley. An Irish Bishop, who died in 1753, influenced Immanuel Kant, had a California University named after him, has been called an Episcopalian Saint, invested money in Caribbean sugar plantation that owned slaves. So there we go, a great mind, who, following the horrors of the second World War, rose again, so to speak. He became a source of inspiration for many. His point, and here he was far to Christian to put it like this, we were basically a digestive tract attached to a brain, everything we knew or thought we knew was in our mind. Outside our mind there was no such thing as a table, or a chair.  The isms given to his many thoughts are numerous, they include Immaterialism, Subjective Idealism. The number of E's in his name has always confused me, the realism of the making things up as we go along aspect of his thinking has always appealed to me.