Causalidade e representação em Berkeley: os dados imediatos da subjetividade

The paper aims to examine the relation between to be and to perceive starting from the analysis of George Berkeley´s central principle - esse est percipi -, as it is introduced by the author in A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge (1710). To develop our analysis we will follow the treatment Grayling offers on the fundamentation of this principle and we intend to show that Berkeley´s arguments are organized in three levels: the strictly empirical level (sense data); the phenomenal level (the world of ordinary experience); and the metaphysical level that explains the two former cases.