Berkeley saw the scientific revolution of his day as the starting symptoms of the decline of the philosophical mind, on its way toward being seduced away from real philosophical inquiry, blinded by its own knowledge to the awe and mystery of existence. According to Berkeley, science and mathematics were both ultimately on par with religion, none of which could dispel the mystery. In his criticism of the calculus of Newton and Leibniz, he wrote, " He who can digest a second or third fluxion ...need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity".
He was less a Skeptic than, by his own reckoning, a true philosopher who pointed to the hidden holes in the conceptual framework, not for the purpose of destroying knowledge but rather for improving and revising it.
伯克利把他那个时代的科学革命看作是哲学思想衰败的开始症状，它正走向被自己对存在的敬畏和神秘的认识所蒙蔽，而偏离了真正的哲学探索。根据伯克利的说法，科学和数学最终都与宗教不相上下，没有一个宗教能驱散这个谜。在他对牛顿和莱布尼兹微积分的批评中，他写道：“能消化第二或第三次流体的人……我认为，不必为神性的任何一点而感到局促不安。”
据他自己估计，他不是一个怀疑论者，而是一个真正的哲学家，他指出了概念框架中隐藏的漏洞，不是为了摧毁知识，而是为了改进和修正知识。
Write an essay analyzing the importance of distinguishing science from pseudoscience.
写一篇文章分析区分科学和伪科学的重要性。
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区分科学和伪科学的重要性
What Locke called the "primary qualities" of sensible objects thus have no existence beyond the conscious mind. Each and every property of a sensible object exists only as a sensation within the perception of a conscious being. In Berkeley's view, once we realize the truth about the nature of perception and the inner working of the mind, we will see that "all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world,have not any subsistence without a mind - that their being is to be perceived or know, that, consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me or do not exist in my mind…
Berleley's views developed in part as a reaction to Locke. Whereas Locke showed that secondary qualities exist only in the mind, Berkeley pushes the empiricist analysis of ideas to the extreme by arguing that even primary qualities exist only in the mind. Locke's mistake, according to Berkeley, is that he derived the objective existence of extension, hardness, weight, motion, and the other primary qualities of sensible objects through the principle of abstraction. Also according to Berkeley, Locke mistakenly thinks he has an abstract idea of substance and extension-matter - as a something "I know not what" to which the mind adheres the secondary qualities of color, texture, and so on. A closer scrutiny of such notions and careful inspection of…
Arthur Schopenhauer credited Berleley as being the first to put forth the view that the world is but an idea in the mind. Ernst Mach, inflential physicist and philosopher, claims to have been guided in his criticisms of absolute space, time, and motion by the work of Berkeley, which led him toward laying the foundations for the revolutionary idea in physics that the conscious observer plays a fundamental role in structuring reality. Indeed, Einsteinian relativity as well as conteporary quantum mechanics can be viewed as the ultimate vindication of Berkeley's ideas.
阿瑟·叔本华认为伯利利是第一个提出世界不过是一种思想的人。恩斯特·马赫(Ernst Mach)是一位有影响力的物理学家和哲学家，他声称自己对绝对空间、时间和运动的批评受到了伯克利大学(Berkeley)工作的指导。伯克利大学的工作让他为物理学中的革命性观点奠定了基础，即有意识的观察者在构建现实中扮演着基本角色。事实上，爱因斯坦的相对论和当代的量子力学可以被看作是伯克利思想的最终证明。
His books having, in his eyes, failed, Berkeley journeyed to the American colonies with the idea of founding a new university in the style of Plato's Academy, where he could be an "educator," not a "re-educator," as he saw himself in England. "The savage Americans," he wrote, "if they are in a state purely natural and unimproved by education, they are also unencumbered with all that rubbish of superstition and prejudice, which is the effect of a wrong one."
Subsequent philosophers, however, have held Berkeley in great esteem. David Hume called his pioneering work on the nature of the mind, particularly his analysis of the complex, bundled nature of our ideas, and the elaborate argument against the existence of abstract…