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goals and perceptions do not have the power to make people
happy and contented. Our task today is to enlighten society to

acknowledge the whole. The whole will be ruled by harmony,
envisaged and desired by wise men throughout history.

George Berkeley (1685-1753) was a bishop. His main

achievement is the theory he called “immaterialism” (later known
as “subjective idealism”). This theory denies the existence of

material substance and instead contends that familiar objects are
only ideas in the minds of perceivers and as a result cannot exist

without being perceived.

To some, this poses the question whether the object is
“objective”, i.e. if the object is the same for all people. Indeed, is

the concept of “other” people valid outside the perception of the
individual?

Berkeley claimed that an individual experiences other people in

the way they speak to him, which is something that does not
originate from his own actions. If he finds out that their worldview

is consistent with his own, he can believe in their existence and
that the world is the same or similar to everyone.

The idea is a solution for a new beginning of something. Idealism
is the teaching according to which the basis of everything in the

world is the spirit or the idea, not the matter.

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