...Minds perceive ideas, they are not themselves ideas; they are utterly unlike the ideas they perceive. "Hence there can be no idea formed of a soul or spirit; for all ideas whatever, being passive and inert, they cannot represent unto us, by way of image or likeness, that which acts. . . . Such is the nature...

...capacity of seizing a multiplicity in one expression.52 This feature is also important for Berkeley : "a spirit is one simple, undivided, active being :...or otherwise operates about them it is called the will".53 This last assertion does not really contradict his early thesis in which the mind is defined...

...speaking, any idea of spirit. Indeed, 'it is manifestly impossible there should be any such idea'.5 'A spirit is one simple, undivided, active being:...is called the understanding; and as it produces or operates about them, it is called the will. Hence there can be no idea formed of a soul or spirit:...

...speaking, any idea of spirit. Indeed, 'it is manifestly impossible there should be any such idea'.6 'A spirit is one simple, undivided, active being:...is called the understanding; and as it produces or operates about them, it is called the will. Hence there can be no idea formed of a soul or spirit:...

...substance: it remains therefore that the cause of ideas is an incorporeal active substance or Spirit. 27. A Spirit is one simple, undivided, active being —...for, all ideas whatever, being passive and inert, (vid. sect. 25,) cannot represent unto us, by way of image or likeness, that which acts. A little attention...

...that also wills. The active side is as essential as the passive, receptive side. "As it [the spirit] perceives ideas it is called the understanding, and...otherwise operates about them it is called the will" (P 27). Since Berkeley defines an "idea" as something totally inert, and says that something inert...

...Berkeley's denial of ideas of minds. It begins by emphasizing the activity of minds and passivity of ideas. A spirit is one simple, undivided, active being: as...ideas whatever, being passive and inert, vide Sect. 25, they cannot represent unto us, by way of image or likeness, that which acts. A little attention...

...therefore that the CAUSE OF IDEAS is an incorporeal active substance or Spirit. 27. NO IDEA OF SPIRIT. - A spirit is one simple, undivided, active being -...otherwise operates about them it is called the WILL. Such is the nature of SPIRIT, or that which acts, that it cannot be of itself perceived, BUT ONLY BY...

...Berkeley's Actively Passive Mind GENEVIEVE MIGELY Berkeley defines the mind as an active substance or being: 'a spirit is one, simple, undivided, active being:...understanding, and as it produces or otherwise operates about ideas, it is called the will' (PHK 27). The will is the activity of producing and operating about ideas...

...related to the mind ? while of the mind he thinks he has said enough when he has told us that — " A spirit is one simple undivided active being. As...there can be no idea formed of a soul or spirit."* Berkeley subsequently retracted this incautious admission that " there can be no idea formed of a soul...