Idealism quotes

Question 1

To be is to perceive or be perceived

Answer 1

‘Esse est percipe aut percipere’

Question 2

Philonous’ criticism of scepticism of materialism

Answer 2

Materialists deny ‘the real existence of any part of the universe’ and they are therefore ‘plunged into the deepest and most deplorable skepticism that ever man was’

Question 3

Russell claims about Berkeley on tree

Answer 3

‘the tree must be in our minds if we can know it’

Question 4

What does Russell distinguish between and says Berkeley conflates?

Answer 4

‘the thing which we are aware’ and ‘the actual awareness itself’

Question 5

Russell: ‘Berkeley’s view, that obviously the colour must be in the mind, seems to depend for its plausibility upon…’

Answer 5

‘confusing the thing apprehended with the act of apprehension’

Question 6

What, according to Russell, is the mind’s function?

Answer 6

the ‘faculty of being acquainted with things other than itself’

Question 7

According to Russell, what are the two possible consequences of Berkeley limiting the mind’s power?

Answer 7

‘unduly limiting the mind’s power of knowing; or we are uttering a mere tautology if we mean by “in the mind” the same as “before the mind”’