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Materialism Vs Idealism - Paper

Materialism Vs Idealism

History tells us very little of Titus Lucretius Carus, but one can see
from reading his work that he has a strong dislike towards religious
superstition, which he claims is the root of human fear and in turn the
cause of impious acts. Although he does not deny the existence of a god,
his work is aimed at proving that the world is not guided or controlled by
a divinity. Lucretius asserts that matter exists in the form of atoms,
which move around the universe in an empty space. This empty space, or
vacuity, allows for the movement of the atoms and without it everything
would be one mass. He explains that matter and vacuity can not occupy the
same space, "...where there is empty space, there ...

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and the soul, and when our
body dies there is nothing left of the latter except for its parts, which
randomly become parts of other forms.

Matter is never ending reality, only changing in its form. In the
philosophical system developed by Irish philosopher George Berkeley,
Idealism, Berkeley states that physical objects, matter, do not exist
independent of the mind. The pencil that I am writing this essay with
would not exist if I were not perceiving it with my senses, but in the
dialogue between Hylus and Philonous Berkeley attempts to show things can
and do exist apart from the human mind and our perception, but only
because there is a mind in which all ideas are perceived or a deity that
creates perception in the human mind, either way its God. He says that the
external world can not be understood by thought, but "sensible things",
objects that we perceive, can be reduced to ideas in the mind. These ideas,
or "objects before the mind", possess primary qualities, the ...

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Added: 11/17/2008 08:23:06 AM
Category: Social Issues
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