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Does Berkeley have a good reason for introducing the notion of God into his account of what it is to be a physical object? How do Berkeley’s views on the role of God in the perception of physical objects differ from Descartes’s views on the issue?
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Does Berkeley have a good reason for introducing the notion of God into his account of what it is to be a physical object? How do Berkeley's views on the role of God in the perception of physical objects differ from Descartes's views on the issue? According to Berkeley, the world consists of nothing but minds and ideas. Ordinary objects are collections of ideas. He argued that one learns to coordinate ideas of sight and touch to judge distance, magnitude, and figure, properties which are immediately perceived only by touch. The ideas of one sense become signs of ideas of the other senses. In Berkeley's philosophical writings, this coordination of regularly occurring ideas becomes the way the world is known and the way we construct real things. If there are only minds and ideas, there is no place for scientific construct. Since there is a continual succession of ideas in...
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