A generation later, the Irish Anglican bishop, George Berkeley (1685–1753), determined that Locke's view immediately opened a door that would lead to eventual atheism. In response to Locke, he put forth in his Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) an important challenge to empiricism in which things only exist either as a result of their being perceived, or by virtue of the fact that they are an entity doing the perceiving. (For Berkeley, God fills in for humans by doing the perceiving whenever humans are not around to do it.) In his text Alciphron, Berkeley maintained that any order humans may see in nature is the language or handwriting of God. Berkeley's approach to empiricism would later come to be called subjective idealism. COUNT 5
QSN1 Who wrote 'Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge'? ANS1 George Berkeley QSN2 Who wrote 'Alciphron'? ANS2 George Berkeley QSN3 When was 'Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge' published? ANS3 1710 QSN4 What religion was George Berkeley? ANS4 Anglican QSN5 What nationality was George Berkeley? ANS5 Irish