The popularization of common philosophy

Greener Journal of Philosophy and Public Affairs

Vol. 2(1), pp. 135-136, 2021

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The popularization of common philosophy - 68

Zhou Mi

Suqian Economic and Trade Vocational School

ABSTRACT
This paper introduces the field of philosophy, western philosophy and Chinese philosophy of some common sense to popularize common sense, for popularizing the basic knowledge of philosophy, can play a role in the introduction, the basic coverage of the field of philosophy of some basic knowledge.
ARTICLE INFO
*Article No.:* 06082100068	*Accepted:* 01/07/2021 *Published:* 27/08/2021	Corresponding Author Zhou Mi* *E-mail:* 1024317354@ qq.com	*Keywords:* philosophy; popularization; common Sense.

Briefly describe Barclay's doctrine that being is to be perceived and perceived.

Barclays is one of the main representative of the British empiricism, he inherited the Locke's empiricism thought, to realize the philosophy contained in the inner contradictions, that if you insist on heart outside the materialism position of things, is bound to lead to the consequences of skepticism and atheism, so he played the subjective factors of Locke's philosophy, emphatically from the empiricism position to prove the existence of god. The process of his argument is to regard the perceptible thing and the thing itself as one and the same, from the existence of the idea is perceived to the existence is perceived, and then to distinguish the perception of the idea and the perception of the idea of the mind, so as to prove the existence of the spiritual entity.

The object of cognition is the idea, and the idea cannot exist independently without the mind. Therefore, the existence of the idea lies in being perceived. Since the existence of ideas is to be perceived, it means that the existence of everything is to be perceived. Since a thing is a collection of ideas, and an object and a feeling are one and the same, the existence of a thing is to be perceived, or in other words, to be is to be perceived. Barclay's goal, of course, is to prove the existence of God. There are three kinds of beings in the universe: the first is an idea which exists only in the mind of the perceiver; The second is the created spirit which can perceive ideas, that is, my mind and the mind of all others; The third is the eternal and infinite spirit, that is, God. Everything has perceptible properties, so they can be perceived by us because these perceptible properties are the work of God. Barclay is trying to prove the existence of God from an empiricism, which we might call the idealism of sentimentalism.

A Comment on Hume's Skeptical Thought.

Hume is one of the main representatives of empiricism in modern England. He carried out the basic principles of empiricism to the end and reached the conclusion of skepticism. In his view, all knowledge comes from experience, but in the matter of the source of sense experience itself, experience has no choice but to be silent, because no knowledge can be produced outside of it. Locke and Barclay did not follow through on the basic principles of empiricism, so they argued that sensation comes from external things or from God as a spiritual entity. On the question of the source of feeling, Hume's answer is different from materialism, idealism and religious theology, but takes a skeptical position.

First of all, Hume is really skeptical about the origin of sensory experience, and thinks that it is impossible to know exactly where our senses come from. However, from the standpoint of empiricism, he retreated to common sense and believed that it was enough for us to reasonably explain sensory experience as long as we did not ask the question of the source of sensation. So Hume's skepticism is "mild skepticism. "This mild scepticism, he thought, was not so harmful as radical scepticism, but beneficial to mankind, for he confined our investigations to those subjects best suited to the narrow faculty of human reason.