Adi Berkeley philosophy said: NOTHING EXIST, EVERYTHING IS ILLUSION?

Question

What do you think about it?

Answer 1

I would say Adi Berkeley has either had his fair share of PCP or likes the matrix way too much.

Answer 2

The statement contradicts itself. If nothing exists or is true, then the statement itself is not true. If everything is an illusion, then illusion itself must be a reality. This makes no sense at all - assuming that sense really exists.

From what I can understand of Plato, all things are real but are temporary and imperfect copies (or reflections or echoes or shadows) of Forms. Forms are the permanent (eternal) and perfect realities which exist on another plane.

Answer 3

Then illusion is existence...sometimes philosophy can deterorate into merely a play on words.

Answer 4

Possible, but not likely.

Answer 5

that's one way to describe the human condition. then being in human condition, your quote seems false.

Answer 6

Who say that again?  Does he exist?

Answer 7

You can do a Cartesian job on this one. For an illusion to exist there must exist something that is subject to that illusion.

Therefore something must exist.

Answer 8

"It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes that blinds you from the truth."

"You think that's air you're breathing?"

wake up Neo.

Answer 9

Paranoid. Its all real unless you find out its not.

Answer 10

Even Albert Einstein said something along that line.  Yet, the application of such philosophy remains... difficult -- especially in modern day materialistic living and in the court of law.

But, who is to say they are wrong and how do we realize the truth that there is no spoon?  That is the real question.

Answer 11

Umm...how is that possible? :-/

I don't buy it for a second.

Answer 12

So...

Answer 13

I would say Adi Berkeley is an idiot. How could he say such a thing? This guy doesn't deserve to be called a philosopher.

http://hitechstupidity.blogspot.com/

Answer 14

There was once a very old and sage man , who dreamed he was a butterfly for many nights. As a butterfly, he would soar on his wings and be free, but in the everyday world he was bound to a wheelchair.

He asked the question," Am I a man who dreams he is a butterfly, or a butterfly who dreams of being a man?"

My personal belief is that everything is real, and there are no illusions. But it is easy to formulate the hypothesis for your statement.

At times life does seem illusory..

Answer 15

i guess that would need to include his own thinking that he is right and makes sense. it would need to include his own statement which he must therefore have never said. so by saying so, then Adi Berkeley philosophy must not be anything at all. therefore that statement is paradoxical and therefore must be false.

that philosophy is not unlike descartes' philosophy except for one important and necessary ingredient, he did not believe that nothing exists, he merely said that it is possible nothing exists except for my own thoughts, me in whatever capacity that may be.

you can deny the existence of anything in the universe, though not your own mind. or at least not mine.

meaning maybe he could convince me nothing exists including him. but i know that i do, and that's all i can say for sure. and all he can do is assure me of the same about himself. though i cannot be sure i can trust him. his assurance would not constitute for me proof of his existence.

so it is not logically possible that EVERYTHING is illusion. only mostly everything CAN be, though not necessarily is, except technically all of our senses are in some way illusion, misintrepretation of the world around us, a translation. but that's a whole other story.