Natura języka i język natury w filozofii Berkeleya

The main scope of the essay is to give a short description of the role of language in Berkeley’s philosophy. Berkeley points out that language does not refer to the experience as such (as Locke maintained), but is always a tool to construct a model of the experience. Many of the best known motifs of Berkeleyan philosophy (such as his negation of abstract ideas, and his denial of distinction between primary and secondary qualities of bodies) serve the same goal: a new conception of language, in which the language plays quite a different role in human experience – the role of changing human attitudes. In turn the impressive function of language is essential for apprehension the Berkeley’s conception of nature understood as the language of God.