I need help creating a thesis and an outline on 1.Why did Berkeley assert that the existence (esse) of the objects of knowledge consists in their being perceived (percipi). Prepare this assignment acc

I need help creating a thesis and an outline on 1.Why did Berkeley assert that the existence (esse) of the objects of knowledge consists in their being perceived (percipi). Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. Berkeley’s Idealism Berkeley claimed that the existence of the objects of knowledge consists in their being perceived because existence of everything is a product of mental perception (Berkeley 4). To justify this, he claimed that there are two types of reality, idea and spirit, which result to perception. Berkeley believed in ideas being real for the reason that they can be perceived. He also asserted that spirit is real because it can result to ideas in addition to being perceived. From his argument therefore, one can deduce that existence of an idea depends entirely on its perception (Berkeley 5). Thus, an object cannot exist without being perceived. The act of perceiving on the other hand is the product of mind or spirit. It is the mind and spirit that generates ideas and perceive them. Since spirit perceives ideas, it is referred to as understanding. According to Berkeley, it is the understanding that results to the existence of matter. Therefore, what people consider as matter is only the idea that is generated from the sensory perception of physical characteristics of an object. Additionally, one can also deduce that Berkeley asserted that the existence of the objects of knowledge consists in their being perceived because ‘existence’ “consists of the state of actively perceiving or of passively being perceived” (Berkeley 5). According to him, if something lacks the ability to perceive or it cannot be perceived, then there is no need of claiming that it exists. Thus, Berkeley asserted that the existence of the objects of knowledge consists in their being perceived because he believed in any idea on what objects entail being the product of mind and spirit.

Work Cited

Dicker, Georges. Berkeleys Idealism: A Critical Examination. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Print.