The affinity between immaterialism and traditional religion is somewhat easier to understand. |
There is less agreement on Berkeley's argumentative approach to idealism and immaterialism and on the role of some of his specific arguments. |
What had touched the world's hearts was the ethereal immaterialism of their secluded world and something primal in the music they sang. |
In this, of course, he is following Hume, though he applies the Johnsonian argument to Berkeley's immaterialism. |
He constantly defended Idealistic, or speculative, philosophy against Pragmatism, neo-Realism, Materialism, and Berkeleian immaterialism. |
It is possible that Johnson was attempting to disprove immaterialism by the physicality of the stone and its action on his foot. |