There is less agreement on Berkeley's argumentative approach to idealism and immaterialism and on the role of some of his specific arguments. |
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The affinity between immaterialism and traditional religion is somewhat easier to understand. |
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What had touched the world's hearts was the ethereal immaterialism of their secluded world and something primal in the music they sang. |
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It is possible that Johnson was attempting to disprove immaterialism by the physicality of the stone and its action on his foot. |
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In 1709 he issued An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision, followed in the next year by The Principles of Human Knowledge, the main exposition of his immaterialism. |
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He constantly defended Idealistic, or speculative, philosophy against Pragmatism, neo-Realism, Materialism, and Berkeleian immaterialism. |
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Such consumerism seemed to go against the Buddhist immaterialism I'd attuned to the night before. |
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Even for Leibniz, whose later monadological metaphysics was perhaps closer to Berkeley's immaterialist philosophy, an opposition to materialism didn't necessarily imply immaterialism. |
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Berkeley is also known for his critique of abstraction, an important premise in his argument for immaterialism. |
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