Berkeley And Descartes On Knowledge & Reality

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...the great thinkers of history have questioned the nature of reality and processes by which we feel that knowledge is acquired. During the Renaissance, scholars and thinkers began to revolt against the Church doctrine that all knowledge rested in revealed authority via the Church hierarchy (Frost 254), i.e., that knowledge came first from God, and then to Church, and then to the rest of humanity. Philosophers posited that knowledge rested in ability of the human mind. In this tradition, Rene Descartes (1596-1650) sought to establish a reliable basis for truth on which knowledge could be formulated. However – although it was not Descartes intention – the train of thought that he started eventually led to trend toward skepticism that later thinkers, such as George Berkeley (1685-1753 feared would lead to atheism. The following discussion traces the major philosophical trends regarding knowledge between Descartes and Berkeley, and with primary purpose of differentiating the views of Berkeley and Descartes toward knowledge and God.
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