Berkeley's Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

Berkeley's "Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous" explores the nature of reality and perception. Hylas defends materialism, believing objects exist independently of our perception. Philonous counters that all we know comes through our senses, suggesting that physical objects are collections of ideas. He argues that if something exists, it must be perceivable, leading to the conclusion that reality is fundamentally immaterial. Through their conversations, Berkeley promotes idealism, the view that reality consists of minds and their ideas, challenging assumptions about the existence of the physical world as separate from our experience of it.