A Critical Evaluation Of George Berkeley’s Idealism

ABSTRACT    Idealism is the group of Philosophies which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally, mentally, mentally constructed or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically idealism manifest as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing. In a sociological sense, idealism emphasizes how human ideas especially beliefs and values, shape society. As an ontological doctrine idealism goes further, asserting that all entities are composed of mind or spirit.     Idealism thus rejects physicalist and dualist theories …