who is the philosopher who said reality is created by the devil to fool mankind?
I’ve read it in a book that an ancient philosopher said that reality is created by the devil to fool people into believing what is illusionary is real by manipulating their 5 senses. But the philosopher said a soul however, exist because one needs to be consciously existing to be fooled by the devil, if the self is non existing, there is nothing to fool.
does anyone know the name of this philosopher?? I forgot his name and also forgot the source I got it from. Thanks!
“George Berkeley” talked similar stuff,,but had different explaination
he said when u don’t percieve reality, it doesn’t exist,,
and he said so as to percieve the things, one needs mind,,
and he said it was god who created all this (not to fool) but to make mankind question abt the reality.
That was a hypothesis of Rene Descartes.
Not an “ancient” philosopher, but an early modern.