ABSTRACT
In much of his work, George Berkeley set himself the twin goals of combating atheism and skepticism. It is the second enterprise that interests philosophers more than the first, especially since Berkeley's proofs for the existence of God are not thought to be any more successful than anyone else's. Berkeley's ultimate proof for the existence of God in Alciphron depends heavily on the results he had achieved in the New Theory. Berkeley's demonstration that the rational natural motions are language like amounts to a lightning tour through the New Theory of Vision. Berkeley's proof for the existence of God follows quite straightforwardly from the claim that vision is the language of nature. Berkeley's theory faces in its canonical form, is generally supposed to arise from the absence of a mind–independent material world to provide stability, it might be supposed that it is not appropriate, based on Alciphron to make generalizations about the nature of Berkeleianism.
