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George Berkeley

1685 - 1753

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George Berkeley ( BARK-lee; 12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753), known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland), was an Anglo-Irish philosopher, writer, and clergyman who is regarded as the founder of "immaterialism", a philosophical theory he developed which was later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others. As a leading figure in the empiricism movement, he was one of the most cited philosophers of 18th-century Europe, and his works had a profound influence on the views of other thinkers, especially Immanuel Kant and David Hume. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Berkeley is the 95th most popular philosopher (down from 74th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Philosopher.

Berkeley is most famous for his theory of esse est percipi or "to be is to be perceived."

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, George Berkeley ranks 95 out of 1,267. Before him are Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Jürgen Habermas, Mencius, Johann Gottfried Herder, John of Damascus, and Aristippus. After him are Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Carl von Clausewitz, Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin, Jean Bodin, and Al-Tabari.

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Among people born in 1685, George Berkeley ranks 5. Before him are Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, and Domenico Scarlatti. After him are Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, Brook Taylor, Johann Maria Farina, Jean-Marc Nattier, Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, John Gay, and Edward England. Among people deceased in 1753, George Berkeley ranks 1. After him are Hans Sloane, Balthasar Neumann, Gottfried Silbermann, Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Johann Nicolaus Bach, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, and Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, George Berkeley ranks 8 out of 549. Before him are Oscar Wilde (1854), Richard Harris (1930), George Bernard Shaw (1856), Robert Boyle (1627), Jonathan Swift (1667), and Samuel Beckett (1906). After him are Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850), Mary Harris Jones (1837), John Scotus Eriugena (810), Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819), Brigid of Kildare (451), and Bram Stoker (1847).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Ireland

Among philosophers born in Ireland, George Berkeley ranks 1. After him are John Scotus Eriugena (810), G. E. M. Anscombe (1919), John Toland (1670), James Ussher (1581), William Thompson (1775), and Philip Pettit (1945).

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