George Berkeley’s epistemology is monism of perception, immaterialism or subjective idealism. Berkeley criticized John Locke’s premise of objective existence of external things.
Human mind is a free and active thing can produce and erase ideas. But vivid ideas come to mind directly, a man can’t produce or erase them at will like imagination. Direct ideas should come from the other side. Berkeley thought that these direct ideas are produced by the God as the most free and active spirit than human spirits. First of all, ideas are created and sent by the God.
Berkeley thought, to investigate ideas in detail, we can certify the existence of the God.
But to think the cause of ideas is the external existence of the God must be an insufficient theory of epistemology equal to John Locke.
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