Do you agree with Berkeley’s criticism that philosophy inevitably draws us “into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow as we advance, till, at length, . . . we...

Do you agree with Berkeley’s criticism that philosophy inevitably draws us “into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow as we advance, till, at length, . . . we find ourselves just as we were, or, which is worse, sit down in a forlorn skepticism”? What assumptions about the purpose and nature of philosophy does Berkeley make? How does this compare to Plato’s conception of philosophy?