爱尔兰的主教，被称为“主观唯心主义巨子”。面对洛克经验基础，他在《海拉斯与菲洛诺斯》中语出惊人地论断：我们绝对接触不到隐藏其内的实体“物质”，我们接触的只是颜色、形状、气味等一连串“感官观念”，从而“存在就是被感知”。万物的在场确定性，基于天神的持续感知注视。
The eighteenth-century Irish idealist philosopher and Anglican bishop. Cultivated, genial, and active in educational reform, Berkeley developed his radical epistemology to combat the rising tide of materialism. The University of California, Berkeley, is named in his honor.
Berkeley advanced the principle *esse est percipi* — 'to be is to be perceived.' Pressing Locke's empiricism to its logical conclusion, he argued that if all knowledge comes through the senses, then the notion of a 'material substance' existing independently of perception is a self-contradictory abstraction. We perceive only colors, textures, and sounds — never 'matter' itself. When no human perceives a thing, it continues to exist only because it is perpetually perceived by an omniscient God. Berkeley thus eliminated matter entirely, leaving only minds and their ideas.
"To be is to be perceived. Tell me, beyond the colors your eyes see and the textures your fingers feel, what is this 'material substance' you speak of? It is an empty fiction. Without a perceiving mind, the universe dissolves into nothing."
伯克利那惊天级的神命：存在就是被感知（To be is to be perceived / Esse est percipi）。如果这是对的：当你半夜极度失落，关闭手机、在绝对黑暗的寝室里闭上双眼、万虑皆空那一顺刻，外面的考研、绩点、老板的黑脸、社会的摩擦，在逻辑和你的认知体系中，实则早已经完完整整归于了终极零虚无。你根本不需要去为它们在脑子里空转自虐。你能否在这神妙的存在论大特权里，品尝到一种瞬间把整个凡人世界屏蔽剃光的尊高自由？
Locke accepted that behind our sensory ideas there exists an independent material world of atoms and extension. Berkeley turned Locke's own empiricism against him: if we know only our own ideas, the material substrate is a baseless abstraction. Only minds, ideas, and God's perception constitute reality.
Does a hard material world exist independently of all perception, running coldly and indifferently whether or not anyone observes it (Locke)? Or does the world's color and texture come into being only through the participation of a perceiving mind (Berkeley)?
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