Berkeley : George (1685-1753), Irish intellectual & exponent of immaterialism.
... contemporary scene seems to show that philosophy dissipates its energies when it begins to isolate mind from world. Once the process begins, no one knows where to stop - Locke is followed by Berkeley, Berkeley by Hume, Hume by Kant and even Kant by Fichte." 10 Reality and the Integral Knowledge Thus we see that modern science is in a fix; it has lost its self-assurance and ...
... integration rather than the apotheosis of one side at the expense of the others. You declare with Berkeley that we can know only our own Page 11 minds and that what we call matter is really a form of mind. I shall not for the present try to argue against Berkeley. Any history of philosophy will provide you with the traditional counter-attack and the work of the... until your penchant for Berkeley is weakened: you will be able to argue back and the neo-idealists of our own day will help you to return the blitz of neo-realism. What I want to say is simply this: there is no sense of rest in the Berkeleyan philosophy for that in us which strives for harmony. It leaves something in us unconvinced, for, opposed to Berkeley, we have the very strong feeling ...
... account for the Idealistic philosophy of Berkeley by the state of his bowels! Berkeley's Idealism holds that matter is not a reality independent of mind but a phenomenon of mind itself and that it is ultimately composed of perceptions from which it is logically impossible to disengage a material world in its own right. Wisdom studies the medical reports about Berkeley and sums up the whole problem by saying... saying in effect: "Everybody is intensely interested in the movements of his bowels, especially in the impressionable period of childhood. Poor Berkeley, ever since Page 65 his childhood, suffered from looseness of bowels and from an early age was deeply imbued with the discovery that nothing solid came out of his system. As a result the philosophical system he built up could not admit ...
... exist when they are not being perceived in any human mind". Is it not evident that Berkeley's foundational premiss is negated by Jeans? And once it is negated, what remains of Berkeley? You will argue that Berkeley postulates the mind of God as that in which objects when unperceived in any human mind exist. But this is an arbitrary step on the Bishop's part. If our percepts are sufficient... Correctly, the sense should be narrowed; else we confuse the issue at stake. I for one act the anti-mentalist with the narrow sense in view, and if I aver that the drift of Science is away from Berkeley I must be taken to mean not that modern physics thinks matter contains its own explanation but that, in the first place, it does not agree to Berkeley's foundational premiss - "matter exists ...
... ---, "The Story of 'Mother India': Straight from the Horse's Mouth," Mother India, Pondicherry, February-March 1999 . 8, Korstange, Gordon, "An Interview With Amal Kiran", Collaboration , Berkeley, California, Summer 1994. 9. Chakraborty, Dilip, "A Poet in His Guru's Mould: K.D. Sethna - An Appreciation", Indian Book Chronicle , Jaipur, April 1992. Page 266 ...
... limitations of the human mind. Spiritual insight is based on direct knowledge; mental activity remains inexorably restricted by the human constitution, as has been recognized by philosophers like Plato, Berkeley and Kant. Another example of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s “foreknowledge” is the very special nature and purpose of the Earth, as commented upon in the talk “2012 and 1956: Doomsday?” It must ...
... 9. Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, SABCL Vol. 18, p. 440. 10. Stanislav Grof, Realms of the Human Unconscious (New York: Dutton, 1976). 11. Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics (Berkeley, Calif.: Shambala, 1975). 12. Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine and Human, pp. 337-38. 13. Ibid., p. 291. 14. Sri Aurobindo, "Materialism" in The Supramental Manifestation and other ...
... see and the mind of understanding about colour, line and design? How was it that I who was unable to understand and follow a metaphysical argument and whom a page of Kant or Hegel or Hume or even Berkeley left either dazed and uncomprehending and fatigued or totally uninterested because I could not fathom or follow, suddenly began writing pages of the stuff as soon as I started the Arya 129 and ...
... he constants, as they are called. —and link up mind and intellect with that- reality. This is the Copernican revolution that Science brought about in the modern outlook. Philosophers like Kant or Berkeley may say Page 86 another thing and even science itself just nowadays may appear hesitant in its bearings. But that is another story which it is not our purpose to consider here and ...
... s between phenomenon and noumenon and says that men can only know phenomenon. He disputes Berkeley's view of subjectivism—that there is no world outside the perceiving consciousness. According to Berkeley, you project the world out of yourself. Kant does not admit that. He says that the tree you perceive exists or rather something (noumenon) exists which appears to us as the tree. But our knowledge ...
... conduct or a rhythm of evolution in life without an Absolute embracing and leading them together in the steps of its own shadowless light. If the relativities are real—with an apology to Shankar and Berkeley—if the constituents of life are real and living, then the Absolute in whom they subsist and grow is also real and living. This real living Absolute is God, the Life of all life. Page 271 ...
... see and the mind of understanding about colour, line and design? How was it that I who was unable to understand and follow a metaphysical argument and whom a page of Kant or Hegel or Hume or even Berkeley left either dazed and uncomprehending and fatigued or totally uninterested because I could not Page 192 fathom or follow, suddenly began writing pages of the stuff as soon as I started ...
... Indian Philosophy reached its climax in him…It is a pity that nobody came forward to develop his philosophy, else he too would have been established as a founder of modern philosophy like Spinoza and Berkeley.” We should ponder whether such a western approach is at all proper to look into the work. It is well known that Jnaneshwar in Jnaneshwari had never set himself to deal with any philosophy per... nowhere an attempt was made to bring out any doctrinal principle for its own sake, as was done by Shankara. In fact one wonders whether Jnaneshwar himself would have relished being a Spinoza or a Berkeley, nor even a Plato. Therefore such a discussion in the context of his phenomenological-experiential attainments will be our misplaced enthusiasm to call him a philosopher. It is through the poetry ...
... introduced by Newton and Leibnitz in the building up of the Differential and the Integral Calculus, of which the initial logical difficulties provoked the opposition of George Berkeley and Bernard Nieuwen-tijt. Berkeley derided the infinitesimals as "ghosts of departed quantities" and exclaimed: "He who can digest a second or a third Fluxion, a second or a third Difference, need not, methinks, be ...
... he denies that this familiarity and this subtlety are any proof of great mental capacity—"necessarily", he adds, I suppose in order to escape the charge of having suggested that Plato, Spinoza or Berkeley did not show a great mental capacity. Perhaps it is not "necessarily" such a proof; but it does show in one great order of questions, in one large and especially difficult range of the mind's powers ...
... ) 5. Two well-known examples of how recent scientific discoveries can be used to argue against materialism and to support the mystical philosophies are Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics (Berkeley: Shambhala Publications, 1975) and Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters (New York: William Morrow & Co., 1979). 6. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, SABCL Vol. 22, pp. 206-07. 7. ...
... to see and the mind of understanding about colour, line and design? How was it that I who had been unable to understand and follow a metaphysical argument and whom a page of Kant or Hume or even Berkeley used to leave either dazed and uncomprehending and fatigued or totally uninterested, suddenly began to write pages of the staff as soon as I started the Arya and am now reputed to be a great p ...
... realities save ones that conform to the matrices science works with – space, time, matter/energy, and in the end number – exist.” Thus writes Huston Smith, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in his book Forgotten Truth. 22 He is not the only scientifically knowledgeable thinker who protests so vividly against the dogmas of rigid scientism. The economist E.F. Schumacher (d. 1977) ...
... Moreover, “their writings are positively loaded with references to the Vedas, the Upanishads, Taoism (Bohr made the yin-yang symbol part of his family crest), Buddhism, Pythagoras, Plato, Plotinus, Berkeley, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Kant, virtually the entire pantheon of perennial philosophers.” 35 Consequently Wilber divides the 20th century physicists into two batches: the open-minded “mystics” including ...
... see and the mind of understanding about colour, line and design? How was it that I who was unable to under stand and follow a metaphysical argument and whom a page of Kant or Hegel or Hume or even Berkeley left either dazed and uncomprehending and fatigued or totally uninterested because I could not fathom or follow, suddenly began writing pages of the stuff as soon as I started the Arya and am now ...
... page. Its place of insertion was not marked: One would sometimes almost think that this upheaval of thought anticipated at once Plato & Empedocles, Luther, Erasmus and Melanchthon, Kant, Hegel & Berkeley, Hume, Haeckel & Huxley—that we have at one fell blast Graeco-Roman philosophy, Protestant Reformation & modern rationalistic tendency anticipated by the single movement from Janaka to Buddha. ...
... Chaitanya, for it is something that depends on the consciousness and so inhibition is possible. In hypnotic experiments it is found that suggestion can make sugar taste bitter or bitter things sweet. Berkeley and physiology are both right. There is a certain usually fixed relation between the consciousness in the palate and the guṇa of the food, but the consciousness can alter the relation if it wants ...
... read a "Tractate" of Schopenhauer on the six centres and that seemed to me more interesting. In sum, my interest in metaphysics was almost null, and in general philosophy sporadic. I did not read Berkeley and only [? ] into Hume; Locke left me very cold. Some general ideas only remained with me. As to Indian Philosophy, it was a little better, but not much. I made no study of it, but knew the general ...
... was both profound and precise, literary at the same time that it was expository — a combination of qualities found in a mere handful of philosophers. The author of the Republic and the Symposium Berkeley. Fichte, Schopenhauer, Bergson, Bradley, William James are the ones that strike me at the moment. Then there was the fascination of the actual life aiming to plumb the In-world and penetrate the ...
... eminent Renaissance mathematician, published De Divina Proportione in Venice in 1509. Two recent editions of the Treatise on Painting by Leonardo are: C. Pedretti, On Painting: A Lost Book, (Berkeley, 1964); and A. 0. MacMahon, Treatise on Painting, (Princeton, 1956). 17. Geometrical perspective as a tool to pictorialise space was discovered during the Renaissance by several artists. The ...
... reading Barnett, Lincoln. The Universe and Dr. Einstein. New York: Bantam Books, 1968. Calder, Nigel. Einstein's Universe. Penguin Books, 1985. Capra, Fritjof. The Tao of Physics. Berkeley, Shambhala Publications, 1975. Einstein, Albert. Essays in Science. New York: Philosophical Library, 1934. The Evolution of Physics. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967. Ideas and Opinions ...
... works as Marie Curie's assistant at the Radium Institute. He will marry Irene Curie in 1926. . Page 100 1930 Ernest Lawrence built the first cyclotron at Berkeley. 1932 James Chadwick demonstrated the existence of the neutron. 1934 Frederic and Irene Joliot-Curie discovered artificial radioactivity. A radioactive ...
... characteristic way, he parried my question with one of his own: 'How was it that I who was unable to understand and follow a metaphysical argument and whom a page of Kant or Hegel or Hume or even Berkeley left either dazed and uncomprehending and fatigued or totally uninterested because I could not fathom or follow, suddenly began writing pages of the stuff as soon as I started the Arya and alit ...
... 379 Axis Powers, the, 66 BABYLON, 199 Bach, 393,424,427 Ba1arama, 44, 207-8 Bankim (Chandra Chatterjee), 21 Beatrice, 203 Beethoven, 393-5, 424 Bengal, 21 Bergson, 143 Berkeley, 137 Bhaga,208 Bible, the, 100, 127, 152, 186, 192,397 Bois de Fontaineb1eu, 287 Book of the Dead, 133 Borodine, 427 Brahma, 208 Brahman, 3, 9-10, 22, 68, 85, 90, 92, 113 ...
... the constants, as they are called – and link up mind and intellect with that reality. This is the Copernican revolution that Science brought about in the modern outlook. Philosophers like Kant or Berkeley may say Page 137 another thing and even science itself just nowadays may appear hesitant in its bearings. But that is another story which it is not our purpose to consider here and ...
... categories—the constants, as they are called—and link up mind and intellect with that reality. This is the Copernican revolution that Science brought about in the modern outlook. Philosophers like Kant or Berkeley may say another thing and even Page 26 science itself just nowadays may appear hesitant in its bearings. But that is another story which it is not our purpose to consider here and ...
... But the average mind enamoured of a straight and plain thinking, for which, for a famous instance, that great doctor Johnson thought with the royal force dear to all strong men when he destroyed Berkeley's whole philosophy by simply kicking a stone and saying "There I prove the reality of matter," is not alone affected by this turn towards simple solutions. Even the philosopher, though he inclines ...
... Body, even the so-called non-human world is at bottom dishumanized Humanity, our own supreme being in 29. Ibid., p. 623 (Jerusalem, I, 5, 11. 17-20). 30. Ibid., p. 775 (Annotation to Berkeley's "Siris"). 31. Ibid., p. 533 (Milton, II, 40, 11.36-37). 32. Ibid., p. 4% ( ibid., I, 15, 1.11). 33. Ibid., p. 682 (Jerusalem, III, 52). 34. Op. cit., p. 384. 35. William ...
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