Bishop Berkeley

  Just like Samuel Johnson refuting Bishop Berkeley by kicking a rock or a dog or something!

My Online Degree in Philosophy is Really Real! 2010

Philosophers are subject to refutation on the plane where they disdain to exist, as old Sam Johnson proved — sort of — when he kicked a rock in the road to dispute Bishop Berkeley. iii.

Jesus, Borges, Jelly Roll 2010

Ireland has produced but two men of religious genius: Johannes Scotus Erigena327 who lived a long time ago, and Bishop Berkeley who kept his Plato by his Bible; and Ireland has forgotten both; and its moral system, being founded upon habit, not intellectual conviction, has shown of late that it cannot resist the onset of modern life.

Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

Samuel Johnson once showed his contempt for the “immaterialist” views of Bishop Berkeley — in essence, arguing that perception is the only reality — by kicking a rock and saying, “I refute him thusly.”

The Real Thing: Cullen Murphy Murphy, Cullen 2008

An autodidact who quit high school he quotes Bishop Berkeley to explain he's no atheist.

Susan Braudy: An Impolite Inquiry Into the Sexual Orientation of Craig Ferguson, the Well-Endowed (look he brags about it ) Late-Night Tv Host 2008

Aaron Cobb has two posts relevant to the life of Bishop Berkeley.

Memorabilia 2005

Coleridge drew a parallel I don't know how he brought about the connexion between Bishop Berkeley and Tom Paine.

Archive 2005-12-01 2005

Aaron Cobb has two posts relevant to the life of Bishop Berkeley.

Archive 2005-10-01 2005

Coleridge drew a parallel I don't know how he brought about the connexion between Bishop Berkeley and Tom Paine.

Hazlitt on Coleridge on Hume, Berkeley, and Butler 2005

Bishop Berkeley, that all experience is probably something quite different from reality.

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004