ABSTRACT
One last subject is worth treating in connection with Locke’s account of knowledge of the external world: idealism. Berkeley’s idealism looms particularly large with two conflict points standing out. First, given that the world is made of mind-dependent ideas, according to Berkeley, there simply is no external world of which to know the existence. Second, Berkeley’s account of perception is perhaps dangerously similar to an account of perception that Locke vehemently rejected-that of Malebranche. Locke’s Examination of Malebranche’s Recherché and critical writings on Norris are clear repudiations of an account of perception on which God is the immediate, rather than merely ultimate, cause of our ideas.
