Walking in a garden at dawn, Philonous persuades his friend Hylas that heat, colour, sound and even extension exist only as they are perceived, and that matter existing apart from any mind is an incoherent idea. Over three conversations Berkeley defends his immaterialism against the charge of scepticism and grounds the order of nature in the will of God.
The most readable statement of Berkeley’s idealism, published in 1713 and still a staple of introductory philosophy. Download the free EPUB.