George Berkeley was a British empiricist. His philosophy’s essence lay in his statement that “to be is to be perceived” (Fieser and Stumpf 261). He further elaborated on this statement that there are things that exist outside our mind and cannot be perceived, but still exist in some “omnipresent eternal Mind, which knows and comprehends all things, and exhibits them to our mind (Fieser and Stumpf 263). By this, Berkeley implied that the existence of unperceivable things is due to the existence of God. In Berkeley’s philosophical system, the main role of God is to maintain an orderly mechanism of the world by planting ideas in our minds. He believed that all the ideas in the human mind are actually communicated by God and the infinite existence
